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)

  1. leek, garlic
    • Völsunga saga 32, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 205:
      […] sem gull af járni, eða laukr af öðrum grösum, eða hjörtr af öðrum dýrum, […]
      […] as gold from iron, or leek from other herbs or deer from other beasts, […]

Declension
  Declension of laukr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative laukr laukrinn laukar laukarnir
accusative lauk laukinn lauka laukana
dative lauki laukinum laukum laukunum
genitive lauks lauksins lauka laukanna

Derived terms
  • blóðlaukr (“sword”)
  • graslaukr (“garlic”)
  • kofnalaukr (“skin of a puffin”)
  • laukagarðr (“leek-garden”)
  • laukjafn (“straight, just”)
  • laukshǫfuð (“leek-head”)
  • ættarlaukr (“best man of a family”)

Descendants
  • Icelandic: laukur
  • Faroese: leykur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lauk
  • Elfdalian: lok
  • Old Swedish: lø̄ker
  • Old Danish: lø̄k
  • Gutnish: lauk

References
  • “laukr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • laukr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • laukr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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