lyske

See also: łyskę

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse ljóski, from Proto-Germanic *leuskō, *leuskan- (“groin”), likely related to *leuhsaz (“bright, light”), perhaps originally meaning "light skin."[1]

Noun

lyske c (singular definite lysken, plural indefinite lysker)

  1. (anatomy) groin

Declension

Declension of lyske
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lyske lysken lysker lyskerne
genitive lyskes lyskens lyskers lyskernes

Verb

lyske (imperative lysk, infinitive at lyske, present tense lysker, past tense lyskede, perfect tense har lysket)

  1. (rare) to louse (to remove lice from the body of a person or animal)

References

  • “lyske” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • Rietz, Johan Ernst, “ljusk”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 410
  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “leuskan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 334

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

lyske m (definite singular lysken, indefinite plural lyskar, definite plural lyskane)

  1. (anatomy) groin

Etymology 2

Verb

lyske (present tense lyskar, past tense lyska, past participle lyska, passive infinitive lyskast, present participle lyskande, imperative lyske/lysk)

  1. (transitive) to delouse

References

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