lown1
/laʊn/Chiefly Scottish after Middle English
noun
1A calm or quiet state; stillness, tranquillity.
2Shelter; a peaceful or sheltered place.
adjective
1Of the weather, a body of water, or some other natural feature or phenomenon: calm, still.
2Especially of a person: gentle, calm, quiet.
3Of a place: sheltered; cosy, snug.
adverb
Calmly, quietly; peacefully, tranquilly.
Origin
Middle English. Originally from early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic logn, Norwegian regional logn, Old Swedish lughn (Swedish lugn), Old Danish lun, lugn, loghn, lundh (early modern Danish luun, lowen, Danish lun, lune), all nouns in sense ‘calm, stillness, tranquillity’, and also Old Icelandic lygn (adjective) calm, Norwegian lun, (regional) logn, Old Swedish lughn (Swedish lugn, lygn), Danish lun, all adjectives in sense ‘still, calm’) from the same Germanic base as Old Icelandic lauss free, unencumbered.
lown2
/laʊn/(also lowen, lun, lound) Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern ), Irish English (northern ), and Canadian regional (Newfoundland and Labrador )
verb
1 [with object] To make calm, to lull.
2 [no object] To become calm or quiet.
Origin
Late 15th century (in an earlier sense). From lown.