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leuk-
Light, brightness.
Derivatives include light1, illuminate, lunatic, lucid, and lynx.- Basic form *leuk‑.
- Suffixed form *leuk-to‑.
- light1, from Old English lēoht, līht, light;
- lightning, from Old English līhtan, to shine, from Germanic *leuht-jan, to make light. Both a and b from Germanic *leuhtam.
- Basic form *leuk‑. luculent, lux; Lucifer, luciferin, from Latin lūx, light.
- Suffixed form *leuk-smen‑. limbers, limn, lumen, luminary, luminous; illuminate, phillumenist, from Latin lūmen, light, opening.
- Suffixed form *leuk-snā‑. Luna, lunar, lunate, lunatic, lune, lunula; mezzaluna, sublunary, from Latin lūna, moon.
- Suffixed form *leuk-stro‑.
- luster, lustrum, from Latin lūstrum, purification;
- illustrate, from Latin lūstrāre, to purify, illuminate.
- Suffixed form *leuko-dhro‑. lucubrate; elucubration, from Latin lūcubrāre, to work by lamplight.
- Suffixed form *leuk-o‑. leuko-; melaleuca, from Greek leukos, clear, white.
- Suffixed form *leuk-os, *leuk-es‑. risk, perhaps ultimately from Old Iranian raučah‑, day (Old Persian raucah‑).
- O-grade form *louk‑.
- Suffixed form *louk-o‑.
- lea, from Old English lēah, meadow (< "place where light shines"), from Germanic *lauhaz;
- levin, from Middle English levin, lightning, from Germanic *lauh-ubni‑.
- Suffixed (iterative) form *louk-eyo‑. lucent, lucid; elucidate, noctiluca, pellucid, relucent, translucent, from Latin lūcēre, to shine.
- Zero-grade form *luk‑.
- Suffixed form *luk-sno‑. link2, lychnis, from Greek lukhnos, lamp.
- Attributed by some to this root (but more likely of obscure origin) is Greek lunx, lynx (as if from its shining eyes) lynx, ounce2.
[Pokorny leuk‑ 687.] |
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