English
Lune
Lune comes from Northern Middle English Lune.
- Northern Middle EnglishmodernLune
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Northern Middle EnglishmodernLune
- Englishtodaysame form
The story
Inherited from Northern Middle English Lune, probably of Romano-British (Latin) origin, such as Old English ea (‘river’) Lōn, a phonetic adaptation of Latin Ialonus, a local Celtic god (and thus from Proto-Celtic *yalom (‘clearing’)).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ ‘water’
through Proto-Germanic *ahwō ‘stream, river’
through Old English ea ‘river’
Today it means
name A river in Cumbria and Lancashire, England, which passes Lancaster.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Northern Middle English Lune / Lune