Loose vs Lose
To lose is to misplace, or not be able to find.
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But what if I wanted to loose something, but ended up losing it first? [;)]
"As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."
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If we go back but a few years in history, we would realise these are the same.
"Tis lost because it was too loose.
Happens with boats. Happens with horses.
Some things just tend to set themselves free......
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Or I could point out that they are variants of the same Proto-IndoEuropean root *leu- which shows up in Sanskrit as the verb meaning "to cut"[8-|]
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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lose-– ORIGIN Old English losian ‘perish, destroy’, also ‘become unable to find’, from los ‘loss’.
Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).loose-– ORIGIN Middle English loos ‘free from bonds’, from Old Norse lauss, of Germanic origin.
Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).0 -
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- O.E. losian "be lost,
perish," from los "destruction, loss,"
from P.Gmc. *lausa (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up of an army"), from PIE base *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie,
separate" (cf. Skt. lunati "cuts, cuts
off," lavitram "sickle;" Gk. lyein "to loosen, untie, slacken," lysus "a loosening;" L. luere
"to loose, release, atone for"). Replaced related leosan
(a class II strong verb whose pp. loren
survives in forlorn and love-lorn),
from P.Gmc. *leusanan (cf. O.H.G. virliosan, Ger. verlieren,
O.Fris. urliasa, Goth. fraliusan "to lose"). Transitive sense of "to
part with accidentally" is from c.1200. Meaning "to be defeated" (in a
game, etc.) is from 1530s. To lose (one's) mind
"become insane" is attested from c.1500. To lose
out "fail" is 1858, Amer.Eng. - loose (adj.)
- c.1300, from O.N. lauss
"loose, free, vacant, dissolute," cognate with O.E. leas "devoid of, false, feigned, incorrect," from
P.Gmc. *lausaz (cf. Dan. løs "loose, untied," M.Du., Ger. los, Goth. laus),
from PIE *lau-/*leu- "to loosen, divide,
cut apart" (see lose). The verb is first recorded early 13c.,
"to set free." Sense of "unchaste, immoral" is recorded from late 15c.
Figurative sense of loose cannon was in use
by mid-20c. - Do you suppose this is off topic? May I suggest that Logos needs to provide a Proto-IndoEuropean dictionary to support Latin and Greek; and Proto-AfroAsiatic for Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Coptic?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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