English
lauwine
Lauwine comes from German Lawine ‘avalanche’, from Late Latin lābīna ‘a slippery place’, and ultimately from Latin lābor ‘to waver, fall’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElābor‘to waver, fall’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElābēs‘fall’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CElābīna‘a slippery place’
- Old High Germanc. 750–1050lowin
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350same form
- Alemannic GermanmodernLauwin
- Germanc. 1650–presentLawine‘avalanche’
- Englishearliest quotation 1812–1818lauwine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElābor‘to waver, fall’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElābēs‘fall’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CElābīna‘a slippery place’
- Old High Germanc. 750–1050lowin
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350same form
- Alemannic GermanmodernLauwin
- Germanc. 1650–presentLawine‘avalanche’
- Englishearliest quotation 1812–1818lauwine
Earliest quotation: 1812–1818, Lord Byron, (please specify |canto=I to IV): “Once more upon the woody Apennine, / The infant…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- ‘to hang loosely, be weak’
through Latin lābor ‘to waver, fall’
labour, collaboration, laboratory, collapse, elaborate, lapse, laborious, labile, 9 more
through Latin lābēs ‘fall’
Today it means
noun An avalanche.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lābor / lauwine