Noun: laun
Gender: n
f
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | laun |
| Sg. Def. | launin |
| Pl. Indef. | laun |
| Pl. Def. | launin |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | launar |
| Sg. Def. | launarinnar |
| Pl. Indef. | launa |
| Pl. Def. | launanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | laun |
| Sg. Def. | launinni |
| Pl. Indef. | launum |
| Pl. Def. | laununum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | laun |
| Sg. Def. | launina |
| Pl. Indef. | laun |
| Pl. Def. | launin |
Sample Sentences
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Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen
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Þey þey! þey þey! þaut í holti tófa,
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þurran vill hún blóði væta góm,
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eða líka einhver var að hóa
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undarlega digrum karlaróm;
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útilegumenn í Ódáðahraun
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eru kannske að smala fé á laun.
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Hush, hush, hush, hush,
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a vixen dashed in the hillock,
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wanting to quench his thirst with blood.
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Or - is it someone calling,
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strangely, with a harsh voice?
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Outlawed men, in the vast waste land
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are secretly guarding their stolen sheep.
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Á laun. (In secret, secretly.)
Nouns inflected like laun
laun,
Etymology
From Old Norse laun, from Proto-Germanic *launą, from a suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“catch, plunder, profit”). Cognate with Swedish lön, Dutch loon (Old Saxon lōn), German Lohn (Old High German lōn), Old English lean, Old Frisian lān, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽 (laun). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek λεία (leía) (from *λαϝία), Latin lucrum, Old Church Slavonic ловъ (lovŭ) (Russian лов (lov)), Old Irish lóg, Lithuanian lãvinti. See: Old Norse Nouns '
laun', Swedish Nouns '
lön', Dutch Nouns '
loon', German Nouns '
Lohn', Old English Nouns '
lean', Gothic Nouns '
𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽', Ancient Greek Nouns '
λεία', Latin Nouns '
lucrum', Russian Nouns '
лов'.
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