lof

Borrowed from Mapudungun lof (“community”).

lof (plural lofs)

1. Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche, and Picunche peoples, a (familial) clan which recognizes the authority of a lonco.

• FOL, Flo, flo', fol., olf

From Middle Dutch lof, from Old Dutch lof, from Proto-Germanic *lubą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love”).

• Rhymes: -ɔf

lof m (uncountable)

1. praise

   Antonym: blaam

• loflied

From loof

lof n (uncountable)

1. Clipping of witlof (“chicory”).

lof

1. community

• lofche or lofce

From Old Dutch lof, from Proto-Germanic *lubą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love”).

lof m or n

1. praise
2. prestige

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• Dutch: lof

• “lof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lof (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English lof (“praise, glory, song of praise, hymn”), from Proto-Germanic *lubą.

• lofe, love

IPA^(key): /lɔf/

lof

1. praise, glory
   • a. 1225, “In Dominica Palmarum”, in Morris, Richard, editor, Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises‎, published 1868, page 7:

     Drihten, þu dest þe lof of milc drinkende childre muðe.

     Lord, out of milk-drinking children's mouths thou bringest forth praise.

   • 1422, Yonge, James, “The Gouvernaunce of Prynces, or Pryvete of Pryveteis”, in Steele, Robert; Henderson, T, editors, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum‎, translation of Secretum Secretorum by anon., published 1898, lines 15–18, page 136:

     For evyll workys may noght be y-hyde anente the Pepill: for the wyche thynge lese he moste his lof, his roialme shall fall, the crovne of his honnoure and of his reuerence he moste faille.

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2. price, value
3. reputation, honour

• English: lofe
• Scots: lof, loif, lowe, loff

• “lō̆f, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2017-05-17.

From Old English hlāf (“bread, loaf, morsel”), form Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz.

• lofe, love, loof, loff, looffe

IPA^(key): /lɔːf/

lof

1. A loaf or portion of bread.
2. Bread in general.

• English: loaf
• Scots: laif

• “lōf, (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-07.

From Old English lōf.

IPA^(key): /loːf/

lof

1. A set of tongs.

• “lōf, (n.(3))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-07.

lof m (plural lofs)

1. (Jersey, nautical) luff

From Proto-Germanic *lubą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love”). Cognate with Old Saxon lof, Dutch lof, Old High German lob (German Lob), Old Norse lof (Swedish lov). Related to lēof, lufu, lofian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlof/

lof n

1. praise, glory
2. song of praise, hymn

• lofdǣd

• Middle English: lof, lofe, love
  • English: lofe
  • Scots: lof, loif, lowe, loff

From Proto-Germanic *lōfô. Cognate with Icelandic lófi, Gothic 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈloːf/

lōf m (nominative plural lōfas)

1. (anatomy) the palm of the hand
   • (Can we date this quote?) (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Hæfde sigora weard on þam wangstede wǣre betolden lēofne lēodfruman mid lōfe sīnum […]

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• glōf

• Middle English: lofe, loofe, love, loove
  • English: loof
  • Scots: lufe, luif

From Proto-Germanic *lubą (“praise”), whence also German Lob. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love”).

lof n

1. praise
2. leave, permission
3. (plural only) license

   þeir skulu ráða lǫgum ok lofum

   the administration rests with them

• ljúfr (“dear, beloved”)
• leyfa (“to permit”)
• leyfi n (“permission”)

• lof in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

lof c or n

1. Obsolete spelling of lov (“permission”)