different between loun vs lorn

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain. Compare Scots lounder (“to deal heavy blows on, thrash”).

Verb

loun (third-person singular simple present louns, present participle louning, simple past and past participle louned)

1. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Northern England) To beat; thrash.

Etymology 2

From either Scots loon (“boy, lad”) or Middle Dutch loen (“fool, lout”).

Noun

loun (plural louns)

1. (Ulster) boy, youth

Anagrams

• ulno-

Luxembourgish

Verb

loun

1. second-person singular imperative of lounen

English

Etymology

From Middle English lorn, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”)), from Old English loren, ?eloren, from Proto-Germanic *galuzanaz, *luzanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *leusan? (“to lose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”). See further at lese.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??n/

Adjective

lorn (comparative more lorn, superlative most lorn)

1. (obsolete) Doomed; lost.
2. (archaic) Abandoned, forlorn, lonely.

Derived terms

• forlorn
• lasslorn
• lornness
• lovelorn

Translations

Verb

lorn

1. (obsolete) past participle of lese.

References

Anagrams

• ORNL