Loki

Borrowed from Old Norse Loki, where further etymology is shown.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊki/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊki/
• Homophone: low-key (in some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -əʊki

Loki

1. (Norse mythology) The god of mischief and trickery; growing progressively evil, he kills Balder, and is bound until Ragnarok, the end of the world.
   • 2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     There’s the Loki fly, in honor of the tortured God of Mischief, whose scientific name is “Daptolestes illusiolautus,” meaning elegant deception.

• Ilok, kilo, kilo-

From Old Norse Loki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːcɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːcɪ
• Homophone: loki

Loki m (proper noun, genitive singular Loka)

1. (Norse mythology) Loki (Norse god)
2. a male given name

In popular folk etymology, often assumed to be a variant of Old Norse logi (“flame, blaze”) (from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”); compare Old Norse leygr (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Germanic *laugiz (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light; white; to shine”)), but this is not linguistically sound. Now seen as from Old Norse lok (“lock”), equivalent to lok +‎ -i, from Proto-Germanic *luką (“lock”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to turn, bend”), connecting his name to entanglement.

Loki may have originated as an epithet or title ("Entangler"), similar to Freyr ("Lord") for Yngvi, as evidenced by the Jötunn Útgarða-Loki featuring the same element. Some suggest his original name was Old Norse *logi (“liar, deceiver”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to lie, tell a lie”), cognate with Old English loga (“liar, deceiver”)), as he is the god of mischief, or Old Norse logi (“fire, blaze”) (from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- which relates to how he is speculated to have been worshiped.^[1]

• (12th Century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.kɪ/

Loki m (oblique Loka)

1. Loki (Norse god)

• Not to be confused with Logi (Norse Jötunn of Fire).

• Icelandic: Loki
• Faroese: Loki
• Norwegian: Loke (Lòkje)
• Swedish: Locke, → Loke (learned)
• → Danish: Loke (learned)
• → English: Loki

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Loki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.ki/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔki
• Syllabification: Lo‧ki
• Homophone: loki

Loki m pers

1. (Norse mythology) Loki (the god of mischief and trickery)

   Hypernyms: bóg, bóstwo

• Loki in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Loki m

1. (Norse mythology) Loki