leup- and leub-, leubh-

    leup- and leub-, leubh-

    English meaning: to peel, cut off, harm, etc..

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “abschälen, entrinden, abbrechen, beschädigen”

    Note: probably extensions from leu-2.

    Material: With b: O.Ice. laupr m., -leypi n., -leypa f. “basket, Holzwerk”, O.E. léap m. “basket, trunk”, M.L.G. lōp m. “ wooden vessel”, lǣ pen n. “basket”; die Bal.-Slav. examples under can just as well b as bh contain. With bh: Lat. liber “bast, book” (*luber, *lubh-ro-s); Alb. labë “bark, cork” (*loubh-); O.Ir. luib, Ir. luibh f. “herb”, O.Ir. lub-gort “garden”, O.Welsh pl. luird “Gärten”; Goth. lubja-leis “giftkundig”, O.Ice. lȳf f. “Heilkraut”, O.E. lybb n. “ poison, charm, spell”, lyfesn f. “charm, spell”. O.S. lubbi, O.H.G. luppi “Pflanzensaft, poison, charm, spell”; Goth. laufs m., lauf n. “ foliage, leaf”, O.E. léaf, O.H.G. loub n. ds., louba f. ‘schutzdach from bark”, Ger. Laube; Lith. lubà “board”, Ltv. luba “ shingle “, O.Pruss. lubbo f. “board”, ablaut. Lith. luõbas m. “ bark, outer covering of a tree “ (*lōubhos), Ltv. luõbs m. “bowl”; Lith. lùbena “Obstschale”; Russ. lub “Borke, bast”, etc., Church Slavic lъbь “cranium”, Serb. lùbina ds.; With p: O.Ind. lumpáti “zerbricht, damages, plũndert”, lōpá yati “verletzt” (= Slav. lupiti, Lith. laupūti), lōptra- n. ‘swelling, blister”; Gk. λύ̄πη f. “Kränkung”, λῡπέω “betrũbe”, etc.; Lith. lupù, lupti “abhäuten, schälen”, Ltv. lupt “ds., mug, rob”, Lith. laupūti, Ltv. laupít ‘schälen, abblättern; rob”, Lith. lùpena “Obstschale”, lupsnìs “abgeschälte Tannenrinde”; Russ. lupljú, lupítь ‘schälen, peel; aufpicken (eggs); die Augen aufreißen, glotzen; hit, thrash”, lúpa “Hautschuppe”, Church Slavic lupežь “ robbery “ (etc.); unclear is the labial (b, bh or p) in M.Ir. luchtar “boat” (from bark), O.H.G. lo(u)ft “bark, bast”, O.Ice. lopt n. “ ceiling, Dachstube” and “Luft” (‘sky, heaven as obere cover”), Goth.luftus f., ahd O.S. luft m. f., ags lyft m. f. n. “Luft, sky, heaven”, M.L.G. lucht “Oberstock, Bodenraum”; also unclear in O.Ir. lomm, Welsh llwm “bare, naked” (*lup-smoor *lub(h)-smo-), M.Ir. lommraim ‘schäle”; unclear is M.Ir. lumman “covering”.

    References: WP. II 417 f., WH. I 790 f., Trautmann 150 f.