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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lōfô
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“to be flat”). Cognate with Lithuanian lopa (“paw, claw”), Proto-Slavic *lapa, dialectal Armenian լափ (lapʿ), լուփ (lupʿ, “palm, flat of the hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɔː.ɸɔːː/
Noun
*lōfô m
- (anatomy) the palm or hollow of the hand
Inflection
masculine an-stemDeclension of *lōfô (masculine an-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *lōfô | *lōfaniz | |
vocative | *lōfô | *lōfaniz | |
accusative | *lōfanų | *lōfanunz | |
genitive | *lōfiniz | *lōfanǫ̂ | |
dative | *lōfini | *lōfammaz | |
instrumental | *lōfinē | *lōfammiz |
Synonyms
- *fulmō
Derived terms
- *galōfô
Related terms
- *lafō
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *lōfō; *lōf
- Old English: lōf
- Old Norse: lófi
- Icelandic: lófi
- Faroese: lógvi
- Norn: løf, löf
- Norwegian Nynorsk: love
- Old Swedish: lōve
- Swedish: love
- Danish: love
- Gutnish: loe, lo
- → Middle English: love, lof, loove, louf, luf, lufe, luff, luffe
- English: loof
- Scots: luif, lufe, luff
- Gothic: 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa)
- → Galician: luva
- → Portuguese: luva
- → Spanish: lúa