lon

lon (plural lons)

1. (geography) Clipping of longitude.

   Coordinate term: lat

Unknown. Compare Arabic عَلَم (ʕalam). The standard Albanian equivalent is flamur.

lon m

1. (Arbëresh) flag

From Old Irish lon.

lon m (genitive singular loin, nominative plural lonta)

1. blackbird (Turdus merula)

• lon dubh

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lon”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lon”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Old Norse lón. Akin to Icelandic lón.

• IPA^(key): /luːn/

lon f (definite singular lona, indefinite plural loner, definite plural lonene)

1. a depression in the bottom of a river or creek

   Synonym: høl

2. a portion of a creek with slow-flowing water

• logn

• “lon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

According to Stokes, from Proto-Celtic *lux-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to shine”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [l͈on]

lon m

1. blackbird (Turdus merula)

• Irish: lon, lon dubh
• Manx: lhondoo, lhonnag
• Scottish Gaelic: lon, lon-dubh

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laun (“be stretched out, of time; old (of past crops that are still not consumed)”).

• IPA^(key): /lon/
• Rhymes: -lon
• Hyphenation: lon

lon

1. slowness

• "lon" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Sanskrit लवण (lavaṇa). Compare Hindi लोन (lon, “salt”) and Punjabi ਲੂਣ (lūṇ, “salt”).

lon m

1. salt

• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40

From Middle Irish lon, from Proto-Celtic *lono-, probably ultimately from the source of *elantī (“doe, hind”), the source of eilid (“hind”).

Compare Irish lon. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic лань (lanĭ, “hind”).

• IPA^(key): /ɫ̪ɔn/

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural loin)

1. moose
2. elk

Apparently a condensation of lomhainn from St Kilda.

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural lonan)

1. a rope of raw hides

From Middle Irish lon, from Old Irish lon.

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural loin)

1. blackbird (Turdus merula)
2. ouzel (Cinclus mexicanus)

Shortening of lon-chraois, apparently from Middle Irish con cráis (“gluttony”). Kuno Keyer translates lon separately as "demon". Others suggest lon as "water". See craos for its etymology.

lon m (genitive singular loin, no plural)

1. insatiable hunger
2. unquenchable thirst
3. gluttony
4. voracity

From English run.

lon

1. to run

lon

1. definite singular of lo

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lɔŋ˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier cái) lon • (崙, 𨫅)

1. beverage can

From French galon.

lon

1. (military, informal) stripe

• lên lon (“to get militarily promoted”)

From Latin longe, from the adjective longus (“long, far-off”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃/

lon

1. far

• près

• IPA^(key): /lɔn/

lon

1. soft mutation of llon