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Lau called’) is also widely diffused in ;  hliuma, ‘hearing, ear,’  hljómr,  hleóþor, ‘tone, voice, melody.   and .  ',, ‘sound,’ from  lût, , ‘sound, tone, voice, cry.’ — ',  with , is a form of the ;  ‘according to the sound of, &c.;  nâch lût, e.g. der briefe, ‘according to the letters,’ nâch lût des artikels, ‘according to the article,’ then also simply lût des artikels.  used only of the contents of documents read out.   ', , ‘lute,’ from the  late  lûte, , which is derived from  luth;   leút,  liúto, the origin of which from  al'ûd, ‘musical instrument,’ is accepted; hence the connection between  and  or  must be rejected.   ', , ‘to ring, chime,’  liuten,  , ‘to utter a sound, cause to resound, ring,’  lûtten, ‘to make audible.’   hlŷdan, ‘to be audible, make a loud noise, shout, sound.’  ,, ‘pure, mere,’ from lûter, , ‘bright, pure, clear’  lûttar, hlûttar. Since and  tr is not permutated in  (, , , , and ),  hlûtrs, ‘pure,’  hlûttor, ‘pure, clear’ (wanting in ), and  louter are corresponding forms. A   perhaps  signifying ‘washed’ (like  lautus,  ‘washed,’ then ‘splendid, magnificent’). This meaning may be assumed since the  root hlût, preserved only in the , is cognate with  κλυδ and κλύζω, ‘to rinse out, wash, cleanse,’ and κλύδων, ‘beating of the waves.’  , and, ‘lavender,’ from the   lavendel,  and ;  lavendula ( lavendola).  ,, ‘to veer, tack,’ only, from  laveeren, whence also  louvoyer.  ,, ‘avalanche,’ simply; from Swiss, in which , pronounced with a  accent, was current at an earlier period. The word passed in the 18th into the written language,  with the variants, , ,. Although we might regard the word as a derivative of labina on account of, which is undoubtedly of  origin, yet it probably comes from a genuine  source; for the medial  b would be  represented only by b or f (v) in  ( *lęvene). Moreover, the numerous variants point to a  root, and, indeed, to kinship with ; thus with  läuen, läunen, ‘to be softened by a mild temperature, thaw,’ is connected  läuen, läun, ‘thaw, mass of half-melted snow, avalanche,’ and Swiss läue, láui ( láuine), ‘avalanche,’ with läu, ‘warm enough to thaw.’ Even in  an allied word lęwina, ‘cascade,’ occurs.  ,, ‘to live,’ from the  lëben,  lëbên; corresponding to  liban ( libaida),  libban,  to live,  leven;  lifą, ‘to live,’ and also ‘to be remaining.’ This proves the identity of the stem lib, ‘to live,’ with that of  ( bileiban); hence the connection with  λΓπαραεῖν, ‘to persist', to which λιπαρής, ‘persistent, industrious,’ is allied, probably also  lìpti, ‘to adhere.’   and.  ,, ‘liver,’ from the  lëber, lëbere,  lëbara, ; the ë of the stem is an old i (  and ); corresponds to  and  lever,  lifer,  liver,  lifr,. Some have attempted to connected with this common word  terms in the non- languages —  ἥπαρ,  jecur,  yakṛt, and have assumed two stems, lik and ljē̆k (jêk); in that case the medial labial in  would represent an  guttural as in, , , , &c. Equally uncertain is the explanation from the λίπα, ‘fat,’ λιπαρός, ‘sticky, greasy’; nor does it seem probable that  λαπάρα,, ‘loins, flanks,’ is allied, because the  word has an old i.   ,, ‘gingerbread,’ from the  lëbekuocke, , allied to the   lëbezelte. The derivation of lëb-, from lipa, ‘lime-time,’  lipiec, ‘finest honey (lime-tree honey),’ is improbable;  lîbum, too, hardly suffices to explain the  word. lëbe- is more probably a graded form of leip (see ), ‘bread.’ Or is it connected with ModSlov. lepenj, ‘a sort of cake’?  ,, ‘to be parched with thirst,’ from lëchzen, lëchezen,  ‘to dry,’ then ‘to be parched with thirst’. It is connected with the earlier  lëch, ‘leaky,’ for which the  form is used,  lëchen, ‘to dry up, crack and leak through dryness’; in  probably a