different between lorn vs lown

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

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.