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lour olur luor ulor oulr uolr loru olru lrou rlou orlu rolu luro ulro lruo rluo urlo rulo ourl uorl orul roul urol ruol

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Definitions and meaning of lour

lour

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English louren, lour, loure (“to frown or scowl; to be dark or overcast; to droop, fade, wither; to lurk, skulk”), probably from Old English *lūran, *lūrian, from Proto-Germanic *lūraną (“to lie in wait, lurk”). The English word is cognate with Danish lure (“to lie in ambush; to take a nap”), Middle Dutch loeren (modern Dutch loeren (“to lurk, spy on”)), Middle Low German lūren (“to lie in ambush”), German Low German luren (“to lurk”), Middle High German lūren (“to lie in ambush”) (modern German lauern (“to lie in ambush; to lurk”)), Icelandic lúra (“to take a nap”), Saterland Frisian luurje (“to lie in wait”), West Frisian loere (“to lurk”), and Swedish lura (“to lie in ambush; to deceive, fool, trick; to lure; to take a nap”); and is related to lurk.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlaʊə/, /ˈlaʊ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaʊɚ/, /ˈlaʊɹ/, /ˈlaʊ.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ), -aʊ.ə(ɹ)

Verb

lour (third-person singular simple present lours, present participle louring, simple past and past participle loured)

1. (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.

   Synonyms: glower, scowl
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

Alternative forms

• lower

Derived terms

• louring, lowering (noun)
• louringly, loweringly

Translations

Noun

lour (plural lours)

1. A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look.
2. (figuratively) Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance.

   Synonyms: gloom, gloominess

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Old French

Alternative forms

• lur

Pronoun

lour m or f

1. their (third-person plural possessive pronoun)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• roar (archaic)
• loor, lór

Etymology

Definitely connected with Welsh llawer (“a lot”). There are two possibilities:

• The usual etymology, from Thurneysen onwards, derives the term from Proto-Celtic *ɸroweros. This may be connected to roär found in law texts. The initial /l/ is assumed to have arisen from dissimilation.
• Matasović instead reconstructs Proto-Celtic *laweros. He further derives this etymon from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“benefit, prize”), from which also Ancient Greek λᾱρός (lārós, “tasty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈o.ur/

Adjective

lour

1. enough, sufficient
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a3

Inflection

Always predicative (and therefore mainly used in the nominative) in Old Irish, but the Middle Irish descendant lór is used attributively.

Derived terms

• lourtu

Descendants

• Middle Irish: lór
  • Irish: leor
  • Manx: liooar
  • Scottish Gaelic: leòr

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References

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lór”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ufo-lawto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 397–98