different between loun vs loup

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

Alternative forms

• loop

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).

Noun

loup (plural loups)

1. A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

Anagrams

• Lo-p'u

French

Etymology

From Middle French loup, from a dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), or perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan lop, replaced the native Old French, all from Latin lupus, from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *luk?os, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

• Cognate with Italian lupo, Portuguese lobo, Spanish lobo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu/
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)

1. wolf
2. bass (fish)
3. mask, eyemask
4. flaw

Derived terms

Related terms

• Loup
• louveteau

Descendants

• ? English: Loup

Further reading

• “loup” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), or perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan lop, replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.

Noun

loup m (plural loups)

1. wolf (animal)

Old High German

Alternative forms

• loub

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laub?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“peel, break off”), Old Saxon l?f, Old English l?af, Old Norse lauf, Gothic ???????????????????? (laufs).

Noun

loup n

1. leaves

Descendants

• Middle High German: loup
  • Alemannic German: Làuib (Alsatian)
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: loap

    Mòcheno: lap

  • Hunsrik: Laab
  • German: Laub
  • Luxembourgish: Laf
  • Rhine Franconian: Laab

    Frankfurterisch: Laab

  • Vilamovian: ?ojp

Scots

Alternative forms

• lowp (South Scots)

Etymology

From Middle English lopen, borrowed from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Doublet of lepe, which was inherited from Old English hl?apan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??p/

Verb

loup (third-person singular present loups, present participle loupin, past loupit, past participle loupit)

1. to leap