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"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "lift",
"3": "",
"4": "air; sky; firmament"
},
"expansion": "Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "lucht",
"3": "",
"4": "air"
},
"expansion": "Dutch lucht (“air”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Luft",
"3": "",
"4": "air"
},
"expansion": "German Luft (“air”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "lyft",
"3": "",
"4": "air"
},
"expansion": "Old English lyft (“air”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lift",
"3": "luft"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of lift and luft",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "aloft"
},
"expansion": "aloft",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).\nAkin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more loft",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most loft",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "loft (comparative more loft, superlative most loft)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "aloft"
},
{
"word": "cockloft"
},
{
"word": "hayloft"
},
{
"word": "lofty"
},
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "reloft"
},
{
"word": "rood-loft"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1542, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Epitath on Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder",
"text": "A heart, where dread was never so imprest\nTo hide the thought that might the truth advance;\nIn neither fortune loft, nor yet represt",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"lofty; proud; haughty"
],
"links": [
[
"lofty",
"lofty"
],
[
"proud",
"proud"
],
[
"haughty",
"haughty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lɒft/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/lɔft/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/lɑft/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒft"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-loft.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-loft.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-loft.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-loft.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-loft.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-loft.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-loft.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-loft.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-loft.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-loft.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "lŏft"
},
{
"enpr": "lôft"
}
],
"word": "loft"
}
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