different between lown vs loun

English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse logn, lygn, from Proto-Germanic *lugnijaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include Icelandic lón, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?n/
• (Scottish) IPA^(key): /l?un/

Noun

lown (plural lowns)

1. (Scotland) Calm, tranquillity. [from 13th c.]
2. A shelter; a calm or peaceful place. [from 17th c.]
   • 1958, Michael Harrington, Sea Stories from Newfoundland:

     He had no alternative to the slim chance of safety offered by the ‘lun’ of Cat Harbour, Northern Island.

Adjective

lown (comparative lowner, superlative lownest)

1. (chiefly Scotland) Peaceful, calm. [from 15th c.]
   • 1826, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, April:

     Ye may hear him, on a lown day, at every farm-house in the parish.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:lown.

References

• lown in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1923

Etymology 2

See loon.

Noun

lown (plural lowns)

1. (obsolete) A low fellow.

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