Loun vs Lorn - What's the difference?

loun | lorn |

As a noun loun

is wage, pay.

(obsolete) lost, doomed.

Origin uncertain. Compare (etyl) .

(en verb)

To beat; thrash.

From either (etyl) .

(en noun)

(Ulster) boy, youth

(en adjective)

(obsolete) lost, doomed

(archaic) abandoned, lonely, forlorn

* 1874 , , XIX

The mighty river flowing dark and deep, (...)

Is named the River of the Suicides;

For night by night some lorn wretch overweary,(...)

Within its cold secure oblivion hides.

* 1963': He never found his beloved machine gun. '''Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.

* lorness * lovelorn