Icelandic

Adjective

lauss

1. genitive singular masculine of laus
2. genitive singular neuter of laus

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also Old English lēas, Old High German lōs; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- ‎(“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also Ancient Greek λύω ‎(lúō).

Adjective

lauss (comparative lausari, superlative lausastr)

1. loose

Descendants

References

• lauss in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press