Words that come from Old Norse lauss

390 words across 27 languages descend from Old Norse lauss — including loss, lose, loose, losing, loosely, loosen, loser, looser.

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English (91)

Norwegian Bokmål (64)

Swedish (60)

Danish (58)

Finnish (33)

Icelandic (26)

Norwegian Nynorsk (15)

Middle English (7)

Old Norse (6)

Japanese (4)

Old Swedish (3)

Faroese (3)

Westrobothnian (2)

Russian (2)

Chinese (2)

German (2)

Yola (2)

Gutnish (1)

Dutch (1)

French (1)

Czech (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Chinese Pidgin English (1)

Xhosa (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Tamil (1)

Korean (1)