lon

lon

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Malawi Lomwe.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Malawi Lomwe terms

lon (plural lons)

1. (geography) Clipping of longitude.

   Coordinate term: lat

Unknown. Compare Arabic عَلَم (ʕalam). The standard Albanian equivalent is flamur.

lon m

1. (Arbëresh) flag

From Old Irish lon.

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠuːnˠ/^[1]

lon m (genitive singular loin, nominative plural lonta)

1. blackbird (a common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere)

• lon dubh

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “lon”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 674; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “lon”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “lon”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

From Old Norse lón. Akin to Icelandic lón.

• IPA^(key): /luːn/

lon f (definite singular lona, indefinite plural loner, definite plural lonene)

1. a depression in the bottom of a river or creek

   Synonym: høl

2. a portion of a creek with slow-flowing water

• logn

• “lon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From *lōn, dative plural of *lō (“forest, clearing”). Literally, “at the forests”.

lōn n

1. Loon (a county)
2. Borgloon (a city in modern Limburg, Belgium)
3. Loon-Plage (a village in modern Hauts de France, France)
4. Hoogeloon (a village in modern North Brabant, the Netherlands)
5. Neerloon (a village in modern North Brabant, the Netherlands)
6. Loon (a village in modern Drenthe, the Netherlands)
7. an unknown location in modern Gelderland, the Netherlands

• Middle Dutch: Lôon
  • Dutch: Loon

• “lō”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Unknown. Stokes derives it from a Proto-Celtic *luxsno-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to shine”),^[1] but MacBain points out that would give *lonn instead.^[2] A connection with loch (“black, dark”) would meet the same objection.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪on/

lon m

1. blackbird (a common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere)

• Irish: lon, lon dubh
• Manx: lhondoo, lhonnag
• Scottish Gaelic: lon, lon-dubh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laun (“be stretched out, of time; old (of past crops that are still not consumed)”).

• IPA^(key): /lon/
• Rhymes: -lon
• Hyphenation: lon

lon

1. slowness

• "lon" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Sanskrit लवण (lavaṇa). Compare Hindi लोन (lon, “salt”) and Punjabi ਲੂਣ (lūṇ, “salt”).

lon m

1. salt

• Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40

From Middle Irish lon, from Proto-Celtic *lono-, probably ultimately from the source of *elantī (“doe, hind”), the source of eilid (“hind”).

Compare Irish lon. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic лань (lanĭ, “hind”).

• IPA^(key): /ɫ̪ɔn/

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural loin)

1. moose
2. elk

Apparently a condensation of lomhainn from St Kilda.

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural lonan)

1. a rope of raw hides

From Middle Irish lon, from Old Irish lon.

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural loin)

1. blackbird (a common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere)
2. ouzel (Cinclus mexicanus)

Shortening of lon-chraois, apparently from Middle Irish con cráis (“gluttony”). Kuno Keyer translates lon separately as "demon". Others suggest lon as "water". See craos for its etymology.

lon m (genitive singular loin, no plural)

1. insatiable hunger
2. unquenchable thirst
3. gluttony
4. voracity

From English run.

lon

1. to run

lon

1. definite singular of lo

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lɔŋ˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier cái) lon • (崙, 𨫅)

1. beverage can

From French galon.

lon

1. (military, informal) stripe

• lên lon (“to get militarily promoted”)

From Latin longe, from the adjective longus (“long, far-off”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃/

lon

1. far

• près

• IPA^(key): /lɔn/

lon

1. soft mutation of llon