ljós

From Old Norse ljós, from Proto-Germanic *leuhsą.

• IPA^(key): /ljɔuːs/

ljós n (genitive singular ljós, plural ljós)

1. light, clearness
2. lamp
3. candle
4. watt

• ljósur

• IPA^(key): /ljouːs/

  Rhymes: -ouːs

From Old Norse ljós, from Proto-Germanic *leuhsą.

ljós n (genitive singular ljóss, nominative plural ljós)

1. a light

   Synonym: birta

   • Genesis 1 (Icelandic translation)

     Guð sagði: „Verði ljós!“ Og það varð ljós. Guð sá, að ljósið var gott, og Guð greindi ljósið frá myrkrinu. Og Guð kallaði ljósið dag, en myrkrið kallaði hann nótt. Það varð kveld og það varð morgunn, hinn fyrsti dagur.

     And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

2. a lighting

   Synonym: lýsing

From Old Norse ljóss, from Proto-Germanic *leuhsaz.

ljós (comparative ljósari, superlative ljósastur)

1. light (of colour; pale, not dark)
2. clear, apparent

   Synonym: greindur

   Mér er ljóst að við munum deyja hér.

   It is clear to me that we shall die here.

   Ég sagði þér þetta vegna þess að þú verður að gera þér þetta ljóst.

   I mentioned this to you because you must understand this.

3. fair, blond

   Ég hef ljóst hár.

   I have blond hair.

   Drengurinn var brúnhærður, ljós yfirlitum og feiminn.

   The boy had brown hair, a fair complexion and was shy.

• (bright): skýr
• (fair): ljósleitur

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*leuhsa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 334

From Proto-Germanic *leuhsą. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, shine”).

ljós n

1. a burning light
2. light of the sun

• ljóss (“bright”)

• Icelandic: ljós
• Faroese: ljós
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ljos; (dialectal) ljøs, ljus, ljys, løs
• Jamtish: ljǿs
• Elfdalian: liuos
• Old Swedish: liūs
  • Swedish: ljus
• Old Danish: liūs
  • Danish: lys
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lys
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: lys
• Scanian: lýs
• Gutnish: ljaus

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ljós”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive