lodde

lodde (plural loddes)

1. (obsolete) the capelin (fish).
   • 1813, Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland

     We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.

• “lodde”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• doled

• IPA^(key): /lɔdə/, [ˈlʌðə]

From Norwegian lodde. Compare Old Norse loðna (“capelin”).

lodde c (singular definite lodden, plural indefinite lodder)

1. capelin, Mallotus villosus

• lodde on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Middle Low German lōden.

lodde (imperative lod, infinitive at lodde, present tense lodder, past tense loddede, perfect tense er/har loddet)

1. sound (to probe)
2. plumb
3. gauge, test
4. fathom
5. solder (to join with solder)

From Proto-Samic *lontē, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta.

lodde

1. bird

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Old Norse loðna

lodde f or m (definite singular lodda or lodden, indefinite plural lodder, definite plural loddene)

1. capelin, Mallotus villosus

• lodde on the Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nb

From Middle Low German lōden.

lodde (imperative lodd, present tense lodder, simple past and past participle lodda or loddet, present participle loddende)

1. sound (to probe)
2. gauge, test
3. fathom
4. solder (to join with solder)