# laug
## Estonian
### Etymology

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### Noun

laug (genitive lau, partitive laugu)
* lid, eyelid

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse laug, from Proto-Germanic *laugō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /løyːɣ/
* Rhymes: -øyːɣ

### Noun

laug f (genitive singular laugar, nominative plural laugar)
* bath, pool
* hot spring, warm spring, a naturally warm pool with temperatures around 20-50°C

#### Derived terms

* lauga
* laugardagur
* sundlaug

### Anagrams

* ugla

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /læʉ̯ɡ/

### Etymology 1

Older spelling of lag (“law, rule”)

#### Noun

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga or laugene)
* a craft union
* (historical) guild

##### Derived terms

* laugsbror
* laugsvesen
* laugsånd

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse laug, related to Latin lavare (“wash”). Descendant can be found in the prefix of lørdag (“Saturday”) which in Old Norse was laugardagr.

#### Noun

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga or laugene)
* (dated) bath, wash

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

laug
* (non-standard since 2005) past tense of ljuge
* (non-standard since 2005) past tense of lyge

### References

* “laug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “laug” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “laug” in The Ordnett Dictionary

### Anagrams

* gaul, gula, ugla

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lœʊːɡ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse laug, from Proto-Germanic *laugō.

#### Noun

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga)
* bath, wash

##### Related terms

* lauga (“to bathe, wash”)

### Etymology 2

Through Norwegian Bokmål from older Danish laug, a spelling variant of lag. Doublet of lag.

#### Noun

laug n (definite singular lauget, indefinite plural laug, definite plural lauga)
* a craft union
* (historical) guild

##### Derived terms

* laugsbror
* laugsvesen
* laugsånd

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

laug
* past tense of ljuga
* past tense of lyga

### References

* “laug” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “laug” in The Ordnett Dictionary

### Anagrams

* gaul, gula, ugla

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *laugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-.

#### Noun

laug f (genitive laugar, plural laugar)
* bath
* hot spring
    fyrir sunnan ána eru laugarto the south of the river are hot springs

##### Derived terms

* laugardagr

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: laug
* Faroese: leyg
* Norwegian Nynorsk: laug
** → Norwegian Bokmål: laug
* Old Swedish: løgh
** Swedish: lög
* Old Danish: løgh
** Danish: løv, lø, løj, lørdag, Løgum (placename)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

laug
* first-person singular past indicative active of ljúga
* third-person singular past indicative active of ljúga

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “laug”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Polabian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ.

### Noun

laug m inan
* meadow near a river

### References

* Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “laug”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 187