laukr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Norse ᛚᚨᚢᚲᚨᛉ (laukaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *laukaz (“leek”). Cognate with Old English lēac, Old Saxon lōk, Old High German louh. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *lukъ and Finnish laukka, which are borrowings from the Proto-Germanic word. === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈlɑukr̩/ === Noun === laukr m (genitive lauks, plural laukar) leek, garlic Völsunga saga 32, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 205: ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: laukur Faroese: leykur Norwegian Nynorsk: lauk Elfdalian: lok Old Swedish: lø̄kerSwedish: lök Old Danish: lø̄k Danish: løg Norwegian Bokmål: løk → Norwegian Nynorsk: løk Scanian: løg Gutnish: lauk === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “laukr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 374 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “laukr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 261; also available at the Internet Archive