lodde

See also: lödde

English

Noun

lodde (plural loddes)

1. (obsolete) A fish, the capelin.
   • 1813, Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland

     We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lodde”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• doled

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Danish

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /lɔdə/, [ˈlʌðə]

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian lodde. Compare Old Norse loðna (“capelin”).

Noun

lodde c (singular definite lodden, plural indefinite lodder)

1. capelin, Mallotus villosus

Inflection

Declension of lodde

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lodde	lodden	lodder	lodderne
genitive	loddes	loddens	lodders	loddernes

Further reading

• lodde on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German lōden.

Verb

lodde (imperative lod, infinitive at lodde, present tense lodder, past tense loddede, perfect tense er/har loddet)

1. sound (to probe)
2. plumb
3. gauge, test
4. fathom
5. solder (to join with solder)

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Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *lontē, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta.

Noun

lodde

1. bird

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland