英语词汇“Indo-European root: leu-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: leu-

释义

‌‌leu-
To loosen, divide, cut apart.
Derivatives include forlorn, analysis, and solve.

Extended Germanic root *leus‑.
1. 1. lorn, losel, from Old English -lēosan, to lose;
  2. 1. forlorn, from Old English forlēosan, to forfeit, lose;
    2. forlorn hope, from Dutch verliezen (past participle verloren), to lose. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *fer-leusan, *far-leusan (*fer‑, *far‑, prefix denoting rejection or exclusion; see per¹). Both a and b from Germanic *leusan, with Old English and Dutch past participle loren from Germanic *luzana‑, from Indo-European suffixed zero-grade form *lus-ono‑.
2. 1. leasing, -less, from Old English lēas, "loose," free from, without, untrue, lacking;
  2. lose, loss, from Old English los, loss;
  3. loose, from Old Norse lauss, louss, loose;
  4. loess, from German dialectal lösch, loose. a-d all from Germanic *lausaz.
3. leister, from Old Norse ljōsta, to strike, perhaps from Germanic *leustan.
Basic form *leu‑.
1. lag², probably from a source akin to Swedish lagg, barrel stave (< "split piece of wood"), from Germanic *lawwō.
2. Zero-grade form *lu‑.
  1. lyo-, lysis, lyso-, -lyte, lytic, -lytic; analysis, catalysis, dialysis, lyase, palsy, paralysis, tachylyte, from Greek lūein, to loosen, release, untie;
  2. lues, from Latin luēs, plague, pestilence (< "dissolution, putrefaction");
  3. prefixed form *se-lu‑ (se‑, apart; see s(w)e-). soluble, solute, solve; absolute, absolve, assoil, consolute, dissolve, resolute, resolve, from Latin solvere, to loosen, untie.

[Pokorny 2. leu‑ 681.]

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