loaf
Betekenis (Engels)
Sinonieme
loiter about
loaf of bread
lounge about
bum about
waste one’s time
frig around
loll around
lounge around
grata
Vertalings
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ləʊf/
Etimologie (Engels)
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz Proto-West Germanic *hlaib Old English hlāf Middle English lof English loaf * From Middle English lof, laf, from Old English hlāf (“bread, loaf of bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread, loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognate with Scots laif (“loaf”), German Laib (“loaf”), Swedish lev (“loaf”), Russian хлеб (xleb, “bread, loaf”), Polish chleb (“bread”); as a borrowing, Finnish leipä (“bread”), Estonian leib (“black bread”). Doublet of chleb and khleb. * (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread.
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