loef

(Anglès)

1. (masculine) luff, windward side of a sail or ship. (no plural)
2. (masculine, obsolete) originally, an obscure nautical device turned to change a sailing ship’s course

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de neerlandès mitjà: *loef

Heretat de Old Dutch: *luof

Cognat amb Middle Low German: lōf

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: lōf

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: lófi

Cognat amb anglès: glove

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: glófi

In summary

From Middle Dutch *loef, from Old Dutch *luof, from Proto-Germanic *lōf-, from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”).
Although attested only very late, its origin in Old Dutch is relatively certain as Old French borrowed lof from it.
Cognate, with various inflectional variants, with Middle Low German lōf, Middle English lōf, Old Norse lófi, Gothic 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa). With a prefix also English glove, Old Norse glófi.

Conceptes

orsa

sobrevent

Traduccions

inferitura

luff

προσθία

Σταβέντο

windward

exposed to the wind

sopravvento

sopravento

nawietrzny

barlavento

Luv

barlovento

Vorliek