logn

From Old Norse logn, lygn, from Proto-Germanic *lugnijaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include English lown, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).

• IPA^(key): [lɔkn]

logn f (genitive singular lognar, uncountable)

1. (nautical, meteorology) calm

• Note the alternative genitive form logns

From Old Norse logn lygn, from Proto-Germanic *lugnijaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include English lown, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔkn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔkn

logn n (genitive singular logns, nominative plural logn)

1. (nautical, meteorology) calm

From Old Norse logn, lygn. Doublet of lun. Cognate with Icelandic logn, Faroese logn, and English logn.

logn f or m (definite singular logna or lognen, indefinite plural logner, definite plural lognene)

1. (nautical, meteorology) calm

logn (masculine and feminine logn, neuter lognt, definite singular and plural logne)

1. (nautical, meteorology) calm

• “logn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse logn, lygn. Doublet of lun. Cognate with Icelandic logn, Faroese logn, and English logn.

logn f (definite singular logna, indefinite plural logner, definite plural lognene)

1. (nautical, meteorology) calm

logn (neuter lognt, definite singular and plural logne, comparative lognare, indefinite superlative lognast, definite superlative lognaste)

1. (nautical, meteorology) calm

• logna, logne

logn

1. imperative of logna

• “logn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *lugnijaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include English lown, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).

logn n (genitive logns)

1. calm

• lygn

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “logn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1923”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1923