leug-1

    leug-1

    English meaning: to bend

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “biegen”

    Note: Root leug-1 : “to bend” : Root leu-g-2 : lu-g- : lū-g- : “black; swamp” derived from Root leu-2 (*leuĝh-): “to cut off, separate, free”.

    Material: Gk. λυγίζω “bend, coil, turn, twist, rotate “, λύγος f. “biegsamer twig, branch”, λύγινος “geflochten”; Lat. lucta f. “Ringen, wrestling match “, luctō, sek. luctor, -ürī “wrestle, struggle”, luxus “luxated”, luxüre “ dislocate, luxate, crick “ also (as “außer edge and Band”) luxus, -ūs “ũppige fertility, verschwenderischer expenditure”, luxuria; probably lū̆ ma “ mint (?)” from *lū̆ g(s)mü; Maybe Rom. luptů “ struggle, fighting, battle, fight, strife, combat, action, efforts, affair, striving, quarrel, encounter, stour, war, warfare, match, mix “ : Alb. lufta “ struggle, fighting, battle “ common Rom.-Illyr. kʷ- > p-, f- phonetic mutatIon. O.Ir. fo-long- “(er)bear, carry” (from *-lung-); Lith. lùgnas “ ductile, pliable”; O.H.G. loc, Ger. Locke, O.E. locc, O.Ice. lokkr ds., O.Ice. lykna “ bend the knees “; with gradation besides perhaps O.H.G. louh, Ger. Lauch, and. lōk, O.E. lēac, O.Ice. laukr “Lauch”; from “bend, zusammenbiegen” seems die meaning “zumachen, shut” originated to sein (?) in Goth. ga-lūkan “einschließen”, us-lūkan “aufschließen”, O.Ice. lūka ‘shut, aufschließen, finish, end”, O.E. lūcan ‘shut, öffnen”, O.H.G. lūhhan ‘shut”, antlūhhan “aufschließen”; O.Ice. lok n. ‘schluß, Verschluß, cover”, loka f. “Verschluß, bar, bolt”, lykja ‘shut”, O.E. loc n. “Verschluß, bar, bolt, jail “, O.H.G. loh n. “Verschluß, hideout, cave, hole”, Goth. us-luk n. “aperture “; O.H.G. lucka (*lukkja) “Lũcke”, N.Ger. Luke.

    References: WP. II 413 f., WH. I 826 f., 831.