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Lar alarme (from allarme) by dropping the unaccented initial vowel;  a military term identical with.   ,, ‘spectre mask, larva, grub,’ only, from  larva, with the v pronounced as f, as in  , , and.  ,, ‘slack,’ from and  *lasc;   lǫskr ( *lasqs-), , ‘slack, weary’; formed with a suffix sk from the root ,  ( *lasqa- would represent *latsqa-). Yet it is not improbable, since is first recorded in, that the root was borrowed from a  class similar in sound (  lâche,  lasco,‘idle’).  ,, ‘flap, lappet,’ from lasche, , ‘shred, rag’; it is conceivable that the word is related to , whose labial may have been lost before sch; hence  *laska for *lafska?.   ,, ‘pitcher, can,’ a word, not recorded in  and ; probably connected with.  ,, ‘to let, leave,’ from the  lâȥen,  lâȥȥan,  ;   lœ̂tan,  to let,  laten,  láta,  lêtan; the pre- form of the common  root lêt, ‘to leave,’ is lêd (with lad as a weaker gradation,  ). The only certain cognate in the other Aryan languages is the word lassus, ‘faint, languid,’ quoted under ; hence ‘to relax, release,’ is probably the  meaning of the verbal stem. From this, lâȥen, both simply and in compounds, evolved the meanings ‘to set free, omit, leave behind,’ &c., as in.  ',, from the   and  last,  and , ‘burden,’  last (earlier hlast); allied to   hlaþan); the st is a suffix before which the final dental of the verbal stem hlaþ necessarily disappeared,  hlœst,   last. In  an old to-  assumed the meaning ‘waggon-load,’ hlass,  (for *hlaþto-). The  word passed into  ( lest, , ‘ballast,’ laste, ,  lasto, ‘load of shipping’). For further references  .   ', , ‘vice, crime,’ from  and  laster, , ‘abuse, disgrace, mistake,’  lastar, . It is connected with a   lahan (for the loss of h before s  ) preserved in ,  to  leán, ‘to blame.’ Pre- lahstra- is formed from the verbal stem  lah with the suffix stra-, which represents the earlier form tra seen in  leahtor, , ‘reproach, sin’ (obsolete in ). Another derivative from the same stem is seen in  lǫstr ( *lahstus),  last, ‘mistake, defect.’ In the non- languages the word may be compared with  locht (from lokto-), ‘mistake.’   ,, ‘inactive, idle,’ from laȥ (ȥȥ), ‘faint, idle, tardy’ (see ); it corresponds to  lats,  latr,  lœt,  lat, , ‘sluggish, idle, lazy.’ A pre-  formed by gradation from the stem of , lêt, of which lăt- is the weak form (see ,  slăf, from the root slêp). The close correspondence with lassus may be accounted for historically; lassus is an old  for *ladtus; lad is the pre- root on which   is based; , , and. The assumption, however, that  was borrowed from the  cognates ( lasso,  las,  lassus) is inconceivable.  ,, ‘Latin,’ with the foreign accent, in contrast to the term. The diphthong of the second syllable proves that the was naturalized previous to   latînisch,  latînisc, which was adopted in the  period, as is proved by the non-permutation of t (latînus) to  ȥȥ, was used chiefly in the monastic schools, in which Latin was cultivated as the language of the Church.  ,, ‘lantern,’ from the  latërne (lantërne), ; borrowed with the retention of the foreign accent from  laterna ( lanterne,  lantern). <section end="Laterne" /> <section begin="Latte" /> ,, ‘lath,’ from the  late, latte,  latta, ; it corresponds to  lat,  lœtta (lœþþa?),  laþþe,  lath; a difficult word both grammatically and etymologically. The correspondence of tt in lœtta and  latta is abnormal ( tt ought to be  tz, only  þþ corresponds to a  tt). Unfortunately a corresponding word is wanting both in and. Yet there is no need to regard the cognates as foreign; since  is cognate, the  origin of the word is established. Hence from  an allied  class has been rightly derived —  latte,  latta, ‘flat wooden pole.’ To the  cognates  slath ( laz), ‘rod, pole,’ from the base slattâ, is  akin. <section end="Latte" /> <section begin="Lattich" /> ,, ‘lettuce,’ from the <section end="Lattich" />