leig-1 and leik- better oleig-/k-

    leig-1 and leik- better oleig-/k-

    English meaning: poor, miserable

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “dũrftig, elend; Krankheit, schlechtes Ergehen”

    Material: 1. Gk. λοιγός “ruin, mischief, Untergang, death”, λοίγιος “ ruinous, tödlich”; ὀλίγος ‘small”; Alb. lig “mad, wicked, evil, lean”, ligë “malice, Übel”; Lith. ligà “disease, malady”, Ltv. liga ‘schwerere disease, malady, Seuche”, ablaut. Lith. pãliegis m. ds.; 2. Arm. aɫk”at “arm, poor, wenig, concise”; Subst. “armer beggar”, aɫk”at- anam “bin or werde arm; take ab, werde schwach” (*alik”- from IE *oliko-; accordingly is also das ὀ- from Gk. ὀλίγος probably old, die root also as *(o)leig-/k- must be assumed); O.Ir. līach “ woeful, wretched, miserable, unlucky “; O.Pruss. licuts ‘small”.

    References: WP. II 398, Trautmann 161;

    See also: probably to lei-2.