los – Dutch noun declension

Noun: los
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Sg.	los
Pl.	lossen

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like los

bestelbus, ichthus, smeris, getuigenis, voorgeschiedenis, bijspijkercursus, versnijdenis, beatmis, apothekeres, beenvis, bergpas, bijengewas, stalen ros, gedragsstoornis, broeikasgas, penningmeesteres, bontjas, griepvirus, stikstofgas, slagersmes, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, to shine”) or from a substrate language. Doublet of lynx.
2. Cognate with Old Saxon lohs, Old High German luhs, Old English lox, from a similar Germanic form also Swedish lodjur. Cognates outside Germanic include Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx), Lithuanian lūšis, Old Church Slavonic рꙑсь (rysĭ), Old Irish lug, Old Armenian լուսանունք (lusanunkʻ). See: Old English Nouns 'lox', Swedish Nouns 'lodjur', Ancient Greek Nouns 'λύγξ'.

Verbs referencing "los"

English Nouns los, English Nouns losse.

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