lēs: lǝs-

    lēs: lǝs-

    English meaning: weak, feeble

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlaff, matt”

    Note: extension to lē(i)- “ slacken “

    Material: Goth. lasiws (*las-īu̯ os) “weak”, M.H.G. er-leswen “weak become”; O.Ice. lasinn “weak, destructed”, las-meyrr “weak, woeful, wretched, miserable “, M.L.G. lasich = lasch, las ‘slack, faint, languid”, Ice. laraðr “ tired “; Maybe Alb. lasht “old, *weak” Slav. *lošь in Bulg. loš “evil, bad, evil, schlimm, ugly”, Ser.-Cr. lȍš “ unlucky, evil, bad” under likewise; very doubtful is citation of Lat. sublestus “weak, small”; here as ‘schlaff niederhängender scrap, shred” perhaps M.L.G. las keilförmiger rag”, Dan. Nor. las, lase “rag”, M.L.G. M.H.G. lasche m. “rag, scrap, shred”; Lith. lãskana “rag, clout”, Russ. lóskut “piece, rag”; Toch. A ljäṣ k- “Weiche”.

    References: WP. II 439 f., Trautmann 150 s. v. *lasi̯a- and *laskanü-.