# losa
## Chickasaw
### Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw losa, Alabama loca, Mikasuki looci, Creek lasti

### Adjective

losa
* black

### Verb

losa (stative)
* to be black

#### Inflection

| Verbs beginning with a consonant. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
| 1st-person (I, we) | salosa sa-losa | polosa po-losa | hapolosa hapo-losa |
| 2nd-person (you, you all) | chilosa chi-losa | hachilosa hachi-losa | hachilosa hachi-losa |
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | losa | (hoo)losa (hoo-)losa | (hoo)losa (hoo-)losa |

## Choctaw
### Alternative forms

* lusa (traditional)

### Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw losa, Alabama loca, Mikasuki looci, Creek lasti

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /losá/

### Noun

losa
* black, blackness
* smut, soil, blot

### Adjective

losa
* black, dark

### Verb

losa
* to be black

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlosa]

### Noun

losa m anim
* genitive/accusative singular of los

## Icelandic
### Etymology

See laus (“loose”).

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɔːsa

### Verb

losa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative losaði, supine losað)
* to loosen
    Synonyms: leysa, losna
* to extricate, unfasten
    Synonym: leysa
* to empty

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “losa” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Irish
### Noun

losa m
* (nonstandard) inflection of lus (“plant, herb”):
** genitive singular
** nominative plural

### Noun

losa m
* inflection of los (“point, tip; tail; natural increase, produce; result; terminal”):
** genitive singular
** nominative plural

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “losa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

losa (present tense losar/loser, past tense losa/loste, past participle losa/lost, passive infinitive losast, present participle losande, imperative losa/los)
* Alternative spelling of lóse
* Alternative spelling of lòse

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlo.sɑ/, [ˈlo.zɑ]

### Verb

losa
* singular imperative of losian

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

losa (Cyrillic spelling лоса)
* genitive/accusative singular of lȍs

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin lausia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish or Celtiberian *lausia, from Proto-Celtic *plousā (“stone slab”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleus (“to pluck out”) (cognate with Old Norse flus (“peelings”)), or from Proto-Basque *plausa (“stone slab”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlosa/ [ˈlo.sa]
* Rhymes: -osa
* Syllabification: lo‧sa

### Noun

losa f (plural losas)
* flagstone, paving stone, slab, tile (flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone)
    Synonym: baldosa

### Verb

losa
* inflection of losar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* “losa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* Hickey & Puppel (1997): Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, p. 884

### Further reading

* “losa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10