lerd-

    lerd-

    English meaning: to twist

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “verkrũmmen”

    Material: Arm. pl. lorc̣-k” “convulsio partium in posteriora”; Gk. λορδός “with dem Oberkörper after vorwärts writhed, crooked, humped “, λορδοῦν, - οῦσθαι “after vorwärts gebogen sein”; Gael. lorcach, lurcach “lame am foot”; lurc m. “lahmer foot”; O.E. be-lyrtan “cheat, deceive”, M.H.G. lũrzen ds., Dan. lyrte “ joke”, M.H.G. lerzen ‘stammeln”, M.H.G. lurz, lerz “link” (“crooked”); O.E. lort “crooked?”, in addition the PN Lorting = Ger. Lortzing.

    References: WP. II 439, Holthausen AEng. etym. Wb. 206, 209.