ljusk

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms
  • njusk

Etymology

From Old Norse ljóski, from Proto-Germanic *leuskō, *leuskan- (“groin”), likely related to *leuhsaz (“bright, light”), perhaps originally meaning "light skin."[1]

Cognates
Compare Scanian lyvskje, Danish lyske, Scots lisk, dial. English lesk, Dutch lies, Latin lumbus.

Noun

ljusk m

  1. (anatomy) groin

Synonyms

References
  • Rietz, Johan Ernst, “ljusk”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 410
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “leuskan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 334
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