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Leg from λάγηνος, λάγῦνος ἡ, ‘flagon’); with respect to l for  n in words borrowed from    (also, ). Moreover, the  kinship of the  cognates with  lakŭtĭ,  lakas, ‘earthen pitcher,’ is perhaps conceivable.  ', , ‘to lay, put,’ from the   and  lęgen, lęcken,  ;  ‘to cause to lie,’ hence a factitive of . It corresponds to  lęggian,  leggen,  lęčgan,  to lay,  legja,  lagjan,  , ‘to lay.’  .  ', , ‘legend,’ from  legende, , ‘story of a saint’; from  legenda,   (sic dicta, quia certis diebus legenda in ecclesia et in sacris synaxibus designabatur a moderatore chori).   ', ', , ‘waste land,’ simply , from earlier  leeghde,  laagte, ‘low ground, valley,’ through a  medium. Allied to the  laag, ‘low,’ to which  low and the   lágr correspond; in miners' language the  appears also in ;, ‘sloping, awry,’ from  lœ̂ge, ‘flat, low.’ The whole class belongs to the stem of.   ,, ‘fief,’ from lêhen, , ‘feudal estate, fief,’  lêhan, ; corresponding to  lán, , ‘loan, fief (whence  loan),  lœ̂n; in  probably *laihwnis, , to which  reknas, , ‘estate, wealth,’  ‘inheritance,’ corresponds in construction and derivation. For further cognates.   ,, ‘loam, clay,’ with a and  form (ê for  ei); the strictly   Leimen has a restricted sphere. leim, leime,, ‘loam,’ from leimo,. It corresponds to lâm,  loam ( *laima). The root lai appears with a derivative s in leir,, from *laiz, which may have been contracted from laj-is, like  ais, ‘brass,’ from ájis,  áyas. Allied to lîmus,, ‘slime, dirt.’ The form of the gradation between  laima and  lîmus is ai to î. .    (1.),, ‘back or arm (of a chair), balustrade, railing,’ from the  lëne, line, ,  lina, , ‘reclinatorium’ for *hlina, which was probably the form in  also. κλῖνη, ‘couch, mattress’ (these meanings also belong to in earlier ), and for further cognates see  and.

 (2.),, from the  liene, with the remarkable variant liehe, , ‘wild sow’; its further connection are difficult to determine; the similarity in sound with the   laie and  lêfa (for lêha?) must not be overlooked. It is doubtful whether is of  origin.

 (3.),, ‘linch-pin’;.

' (4.), ',, ‘Norwegian maple’; and  lîn-, lîmboum, hence also earlier  ; the  form is borrowed from a Northern ;  lön,  lönn. Moreover the term was common to ; it was applied to the ‘maple’ in all the older  except ;  hlynr,  hlyn (hlynn or hlîn?), and with these in the non  languages  klenŭ, and  klévas, ‘maple,’ are  allied.   (1.),, ‘to lean, recline’; it combines lënen, linen, , ‘to rest (on),’ and (through the medium of )  leinen, , ‘to lean,’  linên, earlier hlinên, , and leinen, hleinen, ; corresponds to  hlinian, hleonian, , and hlœ̂nan, , ‘to lean.’ The real stem is hli, the n is a verbal suffix (in , however, corresponding to  κλί-νη, a nominal suffix). The graded form of hlī̆, hlai, has been preserved in ; it also existed in an *hlaiwaz, *hlaiwiz,, ‘hill’ ( hlaiw,  hlœ̂w,  lêo for hlêo), as well as in  hlains, , ‘hill,’  hlein, , ‘projecting rock.’ The root hlī̆, unpermutated klī̆, appears in the non- languages with numerous cognates;  κλἷ-νω, ‘to lean,’ κλἷ-μαξ , ‘ladder, stairs’ , κλῖ-νη, ‘couch,’ κλι-σία, ‘conch, easy-chair, tent’ (  hlei-þra, , ‘tent’), κλι-τύς, ‘hill,’ κλῖ-τος, κλίτος, , ‘hill’ (  , ,  hlíþ, ,  hlĭþ, , ‘hill’);  clinare, ‘to incline,’ clivus, , ‘hill,’ with which are allied  szlýti, ‘to incline to one side,’ szlëti, ‘to lean against,’ szlaítas, ‘slope.’ Hence, according to these allied meanings, the idea is ‘to rise gradually, assume a wry form or a slanting position.’

 (2.),, ‘to lend,’ from lêhenen,  lêhanôn, ‘to bestow as a fief, lend’;  , and further also ; allied to  lœ̂nan ( lœ̂nde),  to lend. ,, ‘to teach,’ from and  lêren, ‘to instruct, teach, make one acquainted with,’ sometimes also ‘to