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les-
    les-
    English meaning: to gather, pick up
    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sammeln, auflesen”
    Material: Goth. lisan st. V. “auflesen, reap”, O.Ice. lesa “gather, collect, auflesen, einweben”, later (through Ger. influence) “lesen (ein book)”, O.E. lesan “gather, collect”, O.S. O.H.G. lesan “auf-, auslesen” and (after the Doppelbed. from Lat. legere) “lesen (ein book)”; here also O.Ice. lesa, M.H.G. (and Ger. dial.) lismen “ knit “, and welter O.H.G. lesa, M.H.G. lese “a kind of Kleidungsstoff”, O.Ice. lesni “a kind of Kopfzeug”; Lith. lesù, lèsti “with dem bill, beak, neb aufpicken, corn, grain lesen”, Iter. ap-lasūti “herauspicken, auslesen, wählen”; whether here O.Ir. lestar, Lw. from Welsh llestr “vessel”, O.Corn. lester, Bret. lestr ‘ship”? basic meaning wäre “vessel zum Einsammeln from Beeren under likewise”.
    References: WP. II 440, Trautmann 160.

Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.

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