low – English noun declension

English noun forms of low

Noun: low
Singularlow
Plurallows

Sample Sentences

  • You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
  • Economic growth has hit a new low.
  • Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
  • During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing. [2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 38:]
  • He also called for the US and China to rebuild their fractured relationship, which has plunged to new lows this year, but which Guterres said was “crucial” to climate action. [2022 November 4, Fiona Harvey, “UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact”, in The Guardian:]
  • Today's low was 32 °F.
  • A cold one out there today, with lows reaching 33 degrees.
  • He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
  • A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
  • Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
  • He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
5. Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
6. Proto-Germanic *lēgaz
7. Old Norse lágrbor.
8. Middle English lāh
9. English low
10. From Middle English lah, loue, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“low; flat”), from *ligjaną (“to lie; to lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti (“to be lying down”), from *legʰ- (“to lie”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Saterland Frisian läich (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), German Low German leeg, leeg' (“low; inferior”), West Flemish leeg (“lazy”), Danish lav (“low”), Faroese and Icelandic lágur (“low”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish låg (“low”), Finnish laaka (“flat”), Ingrian laaku (“gentle”); also Irish laigh, luigh (“to lie”), Manx lhie (“lie; lay”), Scottish Gaelic laigh (“lie; lay”), Faliscan 𐌋𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌕 (lecet, “he lies down”), Latin lectus (“bed”), South Picene 𐌅𐌄𐌉𐌀𐌕 (veiat, “to lie”), Ancient Greek λέχομαι (lékhomai, “to lie down”), Albanian lag (“band, encampment, troop”), Belarusian ляжа́ць (ljažácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лежа́ (ležá, “to lie”), Czech ležet (“to lie”), Macedonian лежи (leži, “to lie”), Polish leżeć (“to lie”), Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian лѐжати, lèžati (“to lie”), Slovene ležáti (“to lie”), Ukrainian лежа́ти (ležáty, “to lie”), Tocharian B lyäk- (“to lie”). More at lie. See: Old Norse Nouns 'lágr', Dutch Nouns 'laag', Danish Nouns 'lav', Finnish Nouns 'laaka', Latin Nouns 'lectus'.

Verbs referencing "low"

German Nouns Schall.