Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Air, the air; the sky, the heavens. · An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. · Such an attic used as an atelier. · The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
Lofty; proud; haughty.
To propel high into the air. · To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled · To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface. · To furnish with a loft space.
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”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).
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