lo

lo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Lao.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /loʊ/

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• Homophones: low, Lowe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā (“exclamation of surprise, grief, or joy”). Conflated in Middle English with lo! (interjection), a corruption of lok!, loke! (“look!”) (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu (“lo”). See also look.

lo

1. (archaic) look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
   • c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, William, The Tempest‎, act III, scene ii:

     Caliban: Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:

     Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
     Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
     And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
     The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

   • first published 1611, reprinted c. 1900, The Bible, King James version, Luke 15:29:

     [...], Lo, these many years do I serve thee, [...].

   • 1925, Brewitt-Taylor, Charles Henry, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translation of original by Luo Guanzhong:

     Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue. As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 588:

     "Tambi will be here in..." He computed carefully. "... in exactly twenty seconds." And, lo, Tambi appeared at that very moment.

• See Thesaurus:lo

• lo and behold

Variant of low.

lo (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of low.

• lo-cal
• lo-tech

• hi
• mid

lo

1. (colloquial) hello ('lo; see hallo)

• -ol, OL, Ol., ol, ol'

lo

1. him (direct object)

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illud, neuter of ille.

lo n sg (masculine el, feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

lo

1. it (third-person singular neuter direct pronoun)

lo inan

1. sleep

• lo egin 'sleep' (verb)
• logela 'bedroom'

• (Central) IPA^(key): /lu/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /lo/
• Rhymes: -o

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille.

lo (enclitic, contracted 'l, proclitic el, contracted proclitic l')

1. him (direct object)

• -lo is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩.

  Has d'ajudar-lo. ― You have to help him.

From Latin illum, from ille.

lo m (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (archaic or dialectal) the (definite article)

   Synonym: (standard) el

• “lo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lo”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “lo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

lo

1. I

lo

1. (neologism, mostly in compounds) Lolita fashion

   lo娘  ―  lo niáng  ―  a girl who regularly dresses in lolita fashion

From Proto-Brythonic *lluɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *lēgā. Cognate with Welsh llwy, Breton loa (Vannes dialect loé, lui).

• IPA^(key): [loː]

lo f (plural loyow)

1. spoon

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• IPA^(key): [lo]
• Hyphenation: lo

lo (accusative singular lo-on, plural lo-oj, accusative plural lo-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

See o. Compare Portuguese lo.

lo m sg (feminine singular la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)

1. Alternative form of o (“the”, masculine singular)

   Para seres forte debes come-lo caldo.

   You must eat the broth for growing strong.

The l- forms of article are compulsorily used after the preposition por and adverb u. It is optional when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, after unstressed pronouns nos, vos and lles (when they are enclitc) of ambos, entrambos, todos, tras and copulative conjunction ([[e mais#Galician|e mais]] and tonic pronouns vós and nós followed by a numerical precision).

• la
• o

lo m (accusative)

1. Alternative form of o (“him”)

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word.

• la
• no
• o

Back-formation from co (“this”), to (“that”), based on la (“the”), ol (“it”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /lo/, /lɔ/

lo

1. referring to a previous sentence or phrase, i.e. a fact rather than an object; it, the

   Il esas mortinta de tri monati, e vu ne savas lo!

   He's been dead for three months, and you didn't know it (that he's been dead for three months)!

From Betawi Kota lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lu.

lo

1. (chiefly Jakarta, slang) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

   Oke, kalau lo baper, yuk cabut.[1] ― OK, if you are sensitive, let's go!

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• coen (slang, East Java)
• ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• kamu (intimate)
• ko, kowe (informal, Java)
• kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
• lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

lo

1. Alternative spelling of loh (“”).

lo

1. Alternative spelling of loh (“”).

• “lo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

lo

1. it, that (direct object)

   Tu lo audi? – Do you hear it?

• illo

• IPA^(key): ^°/lo/^°, /lo/^°[1]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: lo

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, illud, by dropping il- and -m. [2]

lo m sg (plural gli)

1. the form of il that is used before the so-called impure consonants, that is, s+consonant (impure s), gn, pn, ps, x, y, or z; before a vowel it becomes l'; the

   l’osso ― the bone

   lo stato ― the state

   lo zio ― the uncle

From Latin illum.

• -lo (enclitic)

lo m sg (plural li, female la)

1. (accusative) him

   Lo conosci? ― Do you know him?

2. (accusative) it, this or that thing

   Synonym: ciò

   Quando te lo diedi. ― When I gave it to you.

lo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ろ゚
2. Rōmaji transcription of ロ゚

lo

1. to go

   Synonyms: kako, attu

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “lo”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 60

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *laj. Cognates include Chinese 來 (lái) and Burmese လာ (la).

• IPA^(key): /lo˧/

lo

1. (intransitive) to come

• ré

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 16

From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-l(y)a¹ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꉐꆂ (hxa nie), Burmese လျှာ (hlya), S'gaw Karen ပျ့ၤ (plaȳ), Tedim Chin lei², Drung pvlai, Chepang ले (le).

• IPA^(key): [ɮo³³]

lo 

1. (Yao'an) tongue

• IPA^(key): /loː/

lo

1. Alternative form of elo

lo

1. rotten, spoiled

lo (lo⁵ / lo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咯.

• Almost all syllables transliterated from Chinese speech contain one of four diacritics indicating tone. This is one of the few syllables in the Chinese language that is transcribed only in a toneless form.

From Old Dutch *lō.

lô f or n

1. clearing in a forest

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• lôon

• Dutch: lo (obsolete outside toponyms)

• “loo”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “loo”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page loo

lo

1. Alternative form of 'o

lo n (definite singular loet, uncountable)

1. lint

• loe

lo

1. past of le

• IPA^(key): /luː/

Confer with Icelandic ló. May have something to do with Old Norse lagðr.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. woollen hairs that shed off knitted or woven fabrics

• navlelo
• stampelo

• lòden

From Old Norse ló, lóa.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. any of various birds of the family Charadriidae, the plovers and dotterels

From Old Norse lóð f or n.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. (agriculture) a harvested (especially grain), that has been cut but not threshed
2. (agriculture, collective) grain, husk and straw
3. (agriculture) a grain harvest
4. (agriculture, collective) hay

From Old Norse ló f or n (“a clearing in the forest; meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhō f, *lauhaz m.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. Used in placenames: meadow

   Synonyms: grasslette, eng

• Follo
• Hafslo
• Lom
• Oslo

From Dutch and/or Middle Low German.

lo m (definite singular loen, indefinite plural loar, definite plural loane)

1. (nautical) part of a vessel whose side faces the wind

• lovart

• le

lo (singular and plural lo)

1. located or situated on the windy side

• luv (Bokmål)

From Middle Low German lot (genitive lodes). Doublet of lodd.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. a shotgun shell

• torelo f

Akin to Icelandic löð.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. a tool used to form the head of nails

• saumlo

Unknown.

lo n (definite singular loet, indefinite plural lo, definite plural loa)

1. natural fertilizer
2. dung

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lo

1. past tense of le

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lo

1. imperative of loa and loe

• “lo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• LO, OL, ol, o.l.

• lou (Mistralian)
• le (Toulouse, Massat)
• eth (Gascon)

From Old Occitan lo, from Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum.

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lo (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

• In the Provençal dialect, the masculine and feminine plural is lei.

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum; compare Old Occitan lo.

lo

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of le; masculine singular oblique definite article

lo

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of le; masculine singular object pronoun

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum; compare Old French lo.

lo (feminine la)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

• Occitan: lo

From Portuguese logo ("soon") and Spanish luego ("soon, later").

lo

Indicates the future tense of a verb.

1. shall
2. will

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• IPA^(key): /lo, ɽo/

lo (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لوۡ)

1. that (agr: dist nom masc sg)

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

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• IPA^(key): /lo, ɽo/

lo (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لوۡ)

1. it
2. he (dist masc nom)

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

See o.

• Hyphenation: lo

lo

1. Alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

   Contá-lo (contar) ― To tell it.

   Contámo-lo (contamos) ― We told it.

   Fi-lo (fiz) ― I did it.

   Ten-lo (tens) ― You have it.

• no (following a nasal vowel), o (following an oral vowel)

See Template:Portuguese personal pronouns for further pronouns.

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lad

From Latin lātus.

lo m (feminine singular loa, masculine plural los, feminine plural loas)

1. (Sutsilvan) wide, broad

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) lartg
• (Puter, Vallader) larg

lo

1. by, at, on
2. to
3. for

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lo

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lo

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

As a masculine pronoun, from Latin illum, the accusative masculine singular of ille (“that, that one”). As an article or impersonal neuter pronoun, from Latin illud, the neuter singular of ille. Compare Portuguese o.

• IPA^(key): /lo/ [lo]

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• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: lo

lo

1. accusative of él, ello, and usted (when referring to a man); him, it, you (formal)

   lo veo ― I see it

2. impersonal neuter pronoun (clitic form of ello); it, that

   lo es ― That’s it

• a lo
• lo de
• lo que
• lo que sea

lo

1. neuter definite article used to make abstract nouns from adjectives; the

   lo pobre ― the poorness / what is poor / the poor thing

• “lo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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lo

1. oh!

From Old Swedish lō, from Old Norse lóa, derived from or related to Proto-Germanic *luhsaz.

• IPA^(key): /luː/

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lo c

1. a lynx

   Synonym: lodjur

• lodjur
• lounge

• o.l.

From English law.

lo

1. law

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 慮／虑 (“be concerned; worry about”, SV: lự).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]

lo • (𢗼, 𢥈)

1. to bother; to worry
2. to attend to; to care for

lo m

1. Soft mutation of llo.

lo m

1. Soft mutation of glo.

• IPA^(key): /l̪o/

lo

1. and

   Muhammad lo Hasan ― Muhammad and Hasan

   namu de esi lo ifa ― chicken eggs and kenari nuts

2. (coordinating) and

   imaa me lo ido me ― he made a grab for it and caught it

3. forms composite numbers

   awoinye lo minye ― eleven (literally, “ten and one”)

   atus siwe lo awoisiwe lo siwe ― nine hundred and ninety-nine (literally, “nine hundred and ninety and nine”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

From Old Norse ló f. Cognate with Norwegian lo f, luv m, Old English wlōh f. Related to Old Norse lagðr m (“tuft of wool or hair”).

lo n

1. fluff
2. dust (of tissues)
3. fringe of cloth and other textiles

From Middle Low German lōt, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

lo n

1. plummet

From Old Norse lófi, láfi (“threshing barn”). Cognate with Norwegian låve, Swedish loge.

lo m

1. threshing barn

• langlo (“oblong barn”)

From Tibetan ལོ (lo).

• IPA^(key): [lo]

lo

1. year

   Synonym: nian

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ló]

ló

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ló]

ló

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

-lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

• IPA^(key): /lò/

lò

1. (transitive) to use; to engage; to exploit

• lo before a direct object

• ìlò (“the act of using”)
• lílò
• ṣàmúlò

• IPA^(key): /lò/

lò

1. to become parboiled (specifically relating to yam tubers in the process of making yam flour, èlùbọ́)

   Synonym: bọ̀

   èlùbọ́ ti lò ― The yam tuber used to prepare èlùbọ́ has become parboiled

• lo before a direct object

• lo-èlùbọ́
• ìlò

• IPA^(key): /lò/

lò

1. to become bendable or flexible

   Synonym: rọ̀

• lo before a direct object

• alò
• ìlò

• IPA^(key): /ló/

ló

1. to lose interest in something; to become disheartened

   Synonyms: sú, gọ́

• aló
• ìló

lo

1. eye

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /lo˨˦/
• Tone numbers: lo¹
• Hyphenation: lo

lo (1957–1982 spelling lo)

1. Used at the end of a sentence to indicate a change of state or a new situation.
   • 2016, Gij Baujcingq Moq Caeuq Geij Bonj Gij Baujcingq Daeuzdaeuz [The New Testament with A Few Books of the Old Testament], Hong Kong: New Bridge Publishing Company Limited, →ISBN, Lizsij dih Gaihcij [Genesis] 1:3:

     Gajlaeng Cangqdiq naeuz: “Rongh!” Yiengq couh doq miz rongh lo.

     And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

2. Used at the end of a sentence to express affirmation or conclusiveness.

lo (Sawndip form ⿰女卢, 1957–1982 spelling lo)

1. (dialectal) daughter-in-law

lo (Sawndip form ⿰口卢, 1957–1982 spelling lo)

1. (dialectal) to worry; to be anxious

• IPA^(key): /lo˧˩/

lò

1. basket

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈló/

lo

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈló/

lo

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /lo/

lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “lo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lo (3-8)”