laug

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laug (genitive lau, partitive laugu)

1. lid, eyelid

From Old Norse laug, from Proto-Germanic *laugō.

• IPA^(key): /løyːɣ/
• Rhymes: -øyːɣ

laug f (genitive singular laugar, nominative plural laugar)

1. bath, pool
2. hot spring, warm spring, a naturally warm pool with temperatures around 20-50°C

• lauga
• laugardagur
• sundlaug

• ugla

• IPA^(key): /læʉ̯ɡ/

Older spelling of lag (“law, rule”)

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga or laugene)

1. a craft union
2. (historical) guild

• laugsbror
• laugsvesen
• laugsånd

From Old Norse laug, related to Latin lavare (“wash”). Descendant can be found in the prefix of lørdag (“Saturday”) which in Old Norse was laugardagr.

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga or laugene)

1. (dated) bath, wash

laug

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of ljuge
2. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of lyge

• “laug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “laug” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “laug” in The Ordnett Dictionary

• gaul, gula, ugla

• IPA^(key): /lœʊːɡ/

From Old Norse laug, from Proto-Germanic *laugō.

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga)

1. bath, wash

• lauga (“to bathe, wash”)

Through Norwegian Bokmål from older Danish laug, a spelling variant of lag. Doublet of lag.

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga)

1. a craft union
2. (historical) guild

• laugsbror
• laugsvesen
• laugsånd

laug

1. past tense of ljuga
2. past tense of lyga

• “laug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “laug” in The Ordnett Dictionary

• gaul, gula, ugla

From Proto-Germanic *laugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-.

laug f (genitive laugar, plural laugar)

1. bath
2. hot spring

   fyrir sunnan ána eru laugar

   to the south of the river are hot springs

• laugardagr

• Icelandic: laug
• Faroese: leyg
• Norwegian Nynorsk: laug
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: laug
• Old Swedish: løgh
  • Swedish: lög
• Old Danish: løgh
  • Danish: løv, lø, løj, lørdag, Løgum (placename)

laug

1. first-person singular past indicative active of ljúga
2. third-person singular past indicative active of ljúga

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “laug”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ.

laug m inan

1. meadow near a river

• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “laug”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 187