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Lak  ,, ‘licorice,’ from the late  lakerítze; from  liquirítia (the a in the first syllable of the  word is due to the unaccented i),  to  γλυκύρριζα (with the modern pronunciation of the vowels). Words originally and used by medical science in the Middle Ages are preserved in, , , , &c.  ,, ‘to stammer,’ from ‘to speak indistinctly, stammer’; the corresponding  lalla, ‘to totter like a child walking,’ shows a curious figurative application of the word. λαλεῖν, lallâre, and   are scarcely cognate; they are rather independent imitative words separately coined in each language.  ,, ‘filbert,’ instinctively connected by Germans with St. Lambert, but the historic term is , ‘Lombard nut’; Lambardîe, Lombardîe, and Lámpart,’ ‘Lombardy, Italy.’.   ,, ‘lamb,’ from the  lamp ( lember),  lamb ( lęmbir),. It corresponds to lamb,  lomb,  lamb,  lam, ‘lamb’; a   term which passed also into  (lammas,  lampaan). Cognates in the non- languages have not yet been found.   ,, ‘lamp,’ from the  lampe, , which is formed from  lampe ( λαμπάξ), whence also  lamp. . —

,, ‘hare,’ is probably a pet term for , , ; its relation to lapin,  lamprei, ‘rabbit,’ is obscure.   , ‘lamprey,’ from lamprête, also corrupted into lemfride, lantfride, &c. (lamprêta, formed from lamprêda (whence  lamproie,  lamprey), with the variant lampetra,  ‘stone-licker.’   ',, ‘land, country,’ from the   lant (d),  lant (t), ; a common  word;   land, ‘district, estate, native country,’ , , , , and  land, ‘country, land.’ To these are  allied  land, lann,  llan, Corn lan (from the  form *landhâ), ‘open space, area, small enclosure, yard,’  lan, ‘heath,’ as well as  lędina, ‘heath, uncultivated land’ ( ljada, ljadina), with which   linda, ‘fallow field,’ agrees in the vowel sounds. Hence  is native to the North of  Europe, while  has a far wider diffusion. The  cognates,  landa and  lande, ‘heath, plain,’ are derived from  rather than from .  ', , ‘long,’ from the   lanc (g),  (and ) lang; it corresponds to  and  long,  laggs,  langr,  and  lang. A common   allied to  longus; it also cognates, perhaps, with  drânga, so that in  and  a dental (d or dh) may have been lost;  δολιχός,  dlŭgŭ,  dîrghás, ‘long,’ are certainly not allied. — ,, ‘slow,’ is one of the earliest forms ending in sam (in  only lustusams, ‘delightful, longed for’);  longsum, ‘tedious, continuous,’  langsam. In, besides langsam, ‘lasting a long time,’ there exists a form langseimi, ‘lingering,’ and in lancsam,  and , ‘slow,’ as well as lancseime, ‘lingering, slow’; in   became obsolete, and its meaning has been transferred to.  ,, ‘lance,’ from the  lanze, , which was formed from  lance ( lancea,   lancia).   ,, ‘trifle, bauble, nonsense,’ only, from  , with a  termination and accent;. <section end="Lappalie" /> <section begin="Lappen" /> ', ',, ‘rag, patch,’ from lappe,  and ;  lappa, , ‘piece of stuff hanging loose, rag’;   lœppa, ‘hem, lappet,’  lap, and  lap. The irregular correspondence of pp to  pp is obscure ( pp ought to be pf in ). We may compare λοβός, ‘lobe,’ or preferably  lópas, ‘patch, rag,’ lópyti, ‘to patch.’ <section end="Lappen" /> <section begin="läppisch" /> ,, ‘silly, foolish,’ only, allied to  lappe, ‘dandy, simpleton,’ which is preserved in earlier , and still in the  ;. <section end="läppisch" /> <section begin="Lärche" /> ,, ‘larch,’ from the  lęrche, larche;  *larihha is by chance not recorded, but  larix ( larĭcem,   from  calicem) necessarily leads to  *larik, and then by permutation and mutation to *lęrihha. The permutation of k to ch, and the fact that the word is based on a term pronounced larikem ( larch), point to a very early adoption;. <section end="Lärche" /> <section begin="Lärm" /> ,, ‘alarm, noise,’ only; like  larum, it originated in <section end="Lärm" />