lep-2

    lep-2

    English meaning: to peel, flay

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “abschälen, abhäuten, abspalten”

    Material: Gk. λέπω ‘schale ab”, λέπος n., λοπός m. “bowl, bark, skin” (ὀλόπτω ‘schäle ab”), λεπίς, λοπίς f. “ scale, husk, bowl, bark”, λοπάς “flaches Geschirr”, λεπάς “einschalige Muschel, Napfschnecke”, λέπῡρον n. “bowl, husk”, ἔλλοψ epithet the Fische (lit. “in Schuppen being”), λέπρα “ leprosy “ (“*sich schuppende skin”); λεπτός “enthũlst (from Körnern); fine, thin, dainty, weak”, λεπτύνω “hũlse from; make thin”, λαπαρός ‘schmächtig, thin” (*λεπαρός); lengthened grade (ō): λώπη “Hũlle, garment, Ledermantel” (“*abgezogenes fell, fur” or at most from “abgetrennten rag”), λῶπος n. ds., λώψ χλαμύς Hes.; Alb. ljapë “Bauchfell from Schlachttieren”, lepíj “meißle”, latë ‘small axe, hack, mattock, hoe” (*laptü); Lat. lepidus “dainty, cute, allerliebst” (compare above λεπτός), lepōs “Feinheit, pleasantness, agreeableness, bright Witz”; presumably also lapit “dolore afficit” (*lep-); O.E. læfer, leber f. “ bulrush, Ried”, Eng. pl. levers, O.H.G. leber “ bulrush”, O.E. lōf m. ‘stirnband, head fascia” (= Lith. lõpas); Lith. lõpas “Flick, rag”, lópau, -yti “flicken”, Ltv. lüps “Flick”, lãpît “flicken”; Lith. lepùs “ mushy, softish, delicate, mollycoddle “, lepáuti “minxish, wanton sein”, lêpinti “verzärteln”, Ltv. lepns “pride”; Sloven. lépen “leaf”, O.Sor. changing through ablaut ɫopjëno n. “leaf”; Russ. lepénь (*lepьnь) ‘shred, scrap, shred”, lépest “rag; Blumenblatt” (further formations of es-stem *lepes- = Gk.τὸ λέπος), lepúcha “ leprosy “ (as Gk. λέπρα); ō-grade (as Gk. λώπη) Russ. lápotь (*lapъtь) m. “Bastschuh”, lápitь “flicken”, etc.

    References: WP. II 429 ff., WH. I 785 f., Trautmann 149 f.