Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The act of lurking. · A swindle.
To remain concealed in order to ambush. · To remain unobserved. · To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. · To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
From Middle English lurken, from Old Norse *lúrka, possibly from Proto-Germanic *lūrukōną (“to be lying in wait, lurk”), equivalent to lour + -k (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lurka (“to sneak away, go slowly”), dialectal Swedish lurka (“to dawdle, be slow in one's work”), Saterland Frisian lüürkje (“to look secretly, spy”), West Frisian luorkje (“to lurk”), Middle Low German lûrken (“to deceitfully stalk”).
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- Inherited-form mentionlurkenenm
- Derivation mention*lúrkanon
- Derivation mention*lūrukōnągem-pro · to be lying in wait, lurk
- Cognate mentionlurkann · to sneak away, go slowly
- Cognate mentionlurkasv · to dawdle, be slow in one's work
- Cognate mentionlüürkjestq · to look secretly, spy
- Cognate mentionluorkjefy · to lurk
- Cognate mentionlûrkengml · to deceitfully stalk
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