lenk-

    lenk-

    English meaning: to bend

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “biegen”

    Material: O.E. lōh ‘strap” (in mæst-lōn pl., sceaft-lō, lōh-sceaft) from *laŋha-, O.Ice. lengja f. ‘strap, stripe”, Dan. længe ‘seilstrippe”, here also O.Ice. lyng n. “Heidekraut”, O.Ice. endilangr adj. “in seiner ganzen Ausdehnung”, O.S. O.E. and-lang, O.Fris. ond-ling, Ger. entlang; O.E. bæс-ling “backwards”, O.H.G. hrucki-lingūn “rũcklings”. chrumbe-lingūn “in krummer direction” under likewise; Lith. lenkiù, leñkti “bow, bend”; lénkė “Vertiefung”, linkstù, liñkti ‘sich biegen”, linkiù, linke ́ti ‘sich neigen to, wish”, Ltv. lìkt ‘sich biegen”, liks “crooked”, Iterat. Lith. lankaũ, -ūti “besuchen”, lánkiòti “ausbiegen”, Ltv. lùocît “bend, bow, lenken”, lùocîkla “joint”; Lith. lankà “valley, lowland, depression”; lañkas “Reifen”, lankùs “pliable”, Ltv. lùoks “Krummholz, Radfelge”, lùoks “pliable”, O.Pruss. perlünkei “belongs”, perlünki “gebũhrt”; reduced grade O.Pruss. lunkis “ angle “, Ltv. lùnkans “pliable”, O.Pruss. lonki ‘steg”; with esp. Anwendung auf das Garnaufwinden Lith. lañktis “Haspel, Garnwinde”, Ltv. luoks, luokids. (also Lith. leñkti stands for “haspeln”; previously secondary afterwards reshaped lenkẽtas “Haspelstock” from lekẽtas: das with it compared Gk. ἠλεκάτη, ἠλακάτη “ spindle”, Eol.-Dor. ἀλακάτᾱ is unclear); O.Bulg. -lękǫ, -lęšti “bend”, lęčǫ, lęcati “Fallen stellen (*loop, noose, snare), capture “, polęčь “ a noose, halter, snare, trap “, Russ. ljákyj “crooked”, O.Bulg. lǫkъ “τόξον, bow”, lǫka “artifice, deceit”, Church Slavic also “Meerbusen, valley, meadow, swamp, marsh”, O.Bulg. si-lǫkъ “inflexus”, Church Slavic lǫčije “ bulrushes “ (“bend -flax, wattle, braid”), O.Bulg. lǫčǫ, -iti ‘separate”, Sloven. lǫ́čiti ‘separate, segregate” and “bend” (these die basic meaning); compare vorrom. (Celt.?) *lankü “Einsenkung, riverbed “ (from *lonkü) in Sũdfrankreich, Westschweiz and Oberitalien, Swiss lauch “trough”.

    References: WP. II 435, Trautmann 159 f., J. Hubschmid Praeromanica 34 f.