lēp-, lōp-, lǝp-

    lēp-, lōp-, lǝp-

    English meaning: flat

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “flach sein; Hand-, Fußfläche, Schulterblatt, Schaufel, Ruderblatt under likewise”

    Material: Kurd. lapk “ paw “; Goth. lōfа m., O.Ice. lōfi m. “flat hand”; M.L.G. M.Eng. lōf “Windseite”, actually “big rudder, wherewith das ship an den wind gehalten wurde”; changing through ablaut geminated O.H.G. laffa f., M.H.G. and dial. Ger. laffe “flat hand, shoulder”, O.H.G. lappo m. “flat hand, Ruderblatt” (also in Ger. Bärlapp “lycopodium”), Nor. Swe. labb m., Dan. lab “ paw “, Ice. löpp f. < Ger. dial. laff “Löwenzahn”; with m-forms Nor. dial. lōm “Tatze, paw “ (*lōƀma-), handlōm “palm”, Ice. lumma “big, giant hand”; Ltv. lę̃pa f. “ paw; Huflattig”, also ‘seerose, Laichkraut” (compare оben Ger. laff “Löwenzahn”); ablaut. E.Ltv. lùopa, through derailment of ablaut Ltv. lãpa, Lith. lópa “ paw “; also Lith. lãpas “leaf”, Ltv. lapa ds.; Russ. etc. lápa “ paw, Tatze”, Pol. ɫapa ds., ɫapiniec “Bärlapp”; Cz. tlapa, slovak. dlaba “Tatze”, Pol. ɫaba = ɫapa; Lith. lopetà ‘shovel”, Ltv. lâpsta ‘shovel, spade, scapula”, O.Pruss. lopto ‘spade”; with other forms and ablaut ǝ: O.Bulg. lopata “Wurfschaufel”, Russ. lopáta ‘shovel”, lopátka ‘scapula”, lopátina “ rudder, helm under likewise”; Alb. lópëtë ‘shovel” is Slav. Lw.

    References: WP. II 428, Trautmann 149 f., 160.