loess

See also: löss and lœss

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /lɜːs/, /ˈləʊɪs/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊ.əs/, /lɛs/, /lʌs/

Noun

loess (countable and uncountable, plural loesses)

(geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin

Derived terms

loessic

Translations

sediment of eolian origin

Belarusian: лёс m (ljos)
Bulgarian: льос m (ljos)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 黃砂, 黄砂 (wong⁴ sa¹)

Hakka: 黃砂, 黄砂 (vong11 sa24)

Mandarin: 黃砂 (zh), 黄砂 (zh) (huángshā), 黃土 (zh), 黄土 (zh) (huángtǔ)

Min Nan: 黃色 (zh-min-nan), 黄砂 (hong2 sê1)

Wu: 黃砂, 黄砂 (ɦuaŋ so)
Czech: spraš m
Danish: løss (da)
Dutch: löss (nl)
Esperanto: leŭso
Finnish: lössi (fi)
French: lœss (fr) m
German: Löss (de) m
Hungarian: lösz (hu)
Italian: loess m

Japanese: 黄土 (おうど, ōdo), 黄砂 (ja) (こうさ, kōsa)
Korean: 황사 (ko) (hwangsa) (黃砂)
Malay: loes
Norwegian:
Bokmål: løss m

Nynorsk: løss m
Persian: بادرفت‎ (fa)
Polish: less (pl) m
Portuguese: loess (pt) m, loesse (pt) m
Russian: лёсс (ru) m (ljoss)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лес m

Roman: les (sh) m
Spanish: loess (es) m
Ukrainian: лес m (les)
Vietnamese: hoàng sa

References

“loess” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Anagrams

loses, sloes, soles

Portuguese

Alternative forms

loesse

Noun

loess m (uncountable)

(geology) loess (accumulation of wind-blown sediment)

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