# losse
## English
### Etymology 1

From Dutch los, from Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

#### Noun

losse (plural lossem)
* (obsolete) A lynx.
    A losse went to prepare to hunt.
** 1889, Henry Morley, Early English Prose Romances:Losse, lynx (Dutch, los)

### Etymology 2

See loss.

#### Noun

losse (countable and uncountable, plural losses)
* Obsolete spelling of loss.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.
** 1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 59:[…] the Lord denounceth thoſe iudgements againſt her, from which ſpecially ſhee bleſſed her ſelfe, euen loſſe of Soueraigntie, ſlaughter and deſolation : […]
** a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:Soe they resolved with losse of their lives to recover or to end the losse of theire libertie , being overcarried indifferently with hate and disdaine , two mightie passions to drive on disordered desires

### Anagrams

* selos, sloes, soles, loses, loess

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

losse
* inflection of los:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

### Verb

losse
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lossen

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

From Middle High German lāzzen (in the 15th century also lassen), from Old High German lāzan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlosə/

### Verb

losse
* to let, to allow
    Loss mich etwas mache.Let me do something.

#### Inflection

| infinitive | losse |
| past participle | geloss |
| auxiliary | hon |
| | present tense |
| 1st person singular | losse |
| 2nd person singular | losst |
| 3rd person singular | lossd |
| 1st person plural | losse |
| 2nd person plural | lossd |
| 3rd person plural | losse |
| | imperative |
| 2nd person singular | loss |
| 2nd person plural | lossd |

#### Derived terms

* loslosse
* zulosse

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔsɛ/

### Noun

losse
* (Early Middle English, Northern, Early Scots) A lynx

#### Descendants

* English: losse, los, loz
* Scots: los, loz

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.

### Verb

losse (imperative loss, present tense losser, passive losses, simple past and past participle lossa or losset, present participle lossende)
* to unload, discharge (cargo)

#### Antonyms

* laste

#### Derived terms

* lossing

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.

### Verb

losse (present tense lossar, past tense lossa, past participle lossa, passive infinitive lossast, present participle lossande, imperative losse/loss)
* to unload, discharge (cargo)

#### Alternative forms

* lossa

#### Antonyms

* laste

#### Derived terms

* lossing

### References

* “losse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology

Compare German lassen, Dutch laten, English let.

### Verb

losse
* to let, to allow
* to let have
* to leave undone
* to leave in possession