leuĝ- (*leuĝh-)

    leuĝ- (*leuĝh-)

    English meaning: to break

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “brechen”

    Note: in Ar. with g, in Balt with ĝ; ar. g probably through influence of leug- “bend”

    Material: O.Ind. rujáti “zerbricht, peinigt”, rugná- “broke”, -ruj f. “pain, disease, malady”, rujü ds., rṓ ga- m. “Gebrechen, disease, malady”, logá- “ clod, Scholle”; Av. uruxti- “Brechen, Zerreißen”; Arm. lucanem “löse los, breche auf”, loic “released, liberated, free”; Gk. ἀ-λυκτο-πέδη “unzerreißbares band, strap”, λευγαλέος, λυγρός ‘sad, terrible”; Alb. lungë “ Geschwũr “; Lat. lūgeō, -ēre “ grieve “ (*louĝei̯ō), lūctus, -ūs “mourning, grief”, lūgubris ‘sad, pitiable “ (probably *lūgos-ri-s); O.Ir. lucht “load, Inhalt, troop, multitude, crowd, people” (*part?), Welsh llwyth “load, burden, tribe”, Gaul. luchtos “part” (?), adj. luchtodos, LVXTIIRIOS, Lucterius MN; O.E. to-lūcan “destroy”, O.H.G. liohhan “tear, rend, pull, drag”, M.L.G. lūken “pull, drag, pluck”, O.E. lūcan “jäten”, Swe. luk, O.N. lok n. “weed”; here GN Loki as “ destroyer “; “Lũcke, hole”, Ger. Lũcke, (nd.) Luke; Lith. láužiu, láužti, Ltv. laûžu, laûzt, trans. “break, rupture”, ablaut. Lith. lúžtu, lúžti, Ltv. lûstu, lûst, intrans. “break, rupture”; in addition Lith. láužas m. “heap abgebrochener Zweige”, lũžis m. “break”, Ltv. laûžńi “ broken Bäume”.

    References: WP. II 412 f., WH. I 830 f., Trautmann 152 f.