lyske

See also: łyskę

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

lyske c (singular definite lysken, plural indefinite lysker)

1. (anatomy) groin

Declension

Declension of lyske

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lyske	lysken	lysker	lyskerne
genitive	lyskes	lyskens	lyskers	lyskernes

Verb

lyske (imperative lysk, infinitive at lyske, present tense lysker, past tense lyskede, perfect tense har lysket)

1. (rare) to louse (to remove lice from the body of a person or animal)

References

• “lyske” in Den Danske Ordbog
• 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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

lyske m (definite singular lysken, indefinite plural lyskar, definite plural lyskane)

1. (anatomy) groin

Etymology 2

Verb

lyske (present tense lyskar, past tense lyska, past participle lyska, passive infinitive lyskast, present participle lyskande, imperative lyske/lysk)

1. (transitive) to delouse

References

• “lyske” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.