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Lei learn’; corresponding to  leeren,  lœ̂ran (whence  lœ̂ra is borrowed),  laisjan, ‘to teach.’ A common   with the  meaning ‘to cause to know’; laisjan is the factitive of a   lais, ‘I know,’ preserved in  only. In and  only a  derivative was retained, which was probably represented in  by *lisnan or *liznan;. Allied also to leis, ‘knowing,’ leisei, ‘knowledge,’ in lubja-leis, -leisei, ‘skilled in poisons, witchcraft.’ We have data for assuming that  lais, ‘I know,’ is based on a  meaning ‘I have experienced,’ for the stem lis of  and  appears also in  and  in the old sense of ‘to go,’ with which  lîra, ‘furrow,’ and its derivative delîrare ( ‘to slip away from’) are connected, as well as  lěcha, ‘ridge (of a furrow),’ mentioned under ;. —  ,, ‘teaching, doctrine,’ from lêre,  lêra, ;   lâr, , whence  lore. —  ', ',, ‘learned,’ even in gelêrt and gelârt, with the  sense,  however, ‘one who is instructed’;   ilœred,  lœ̂rþr ( doctus from docere).  , suffix, simply; from  leie,, ‘manner, method.’ In  there was no compound corresponding to  , the expression maneger leie being used as a , e.g. maneger leie liute, ‘various sorts of people,’  to. leie, lei, is generally considered to be a word borrowed from  and  ley, ‘method’ ( and  laya, ‘manner,’ is said to be of Basque origin).   ', ', and, ‘rock, stone’ (in proper names like ), from  lei, leie, , ‘rock, stone,’ also ‘paved way, schist,’ corresponding to  leia,  ‘rock.’ Further cognates, whether in the  or non- languages, are uncertain (allied perhaps to  λᾶας, ‘stone’?). It has been assumed that lavagna, ‘slate,’ was borrowed from the  cognates.   ,, ‘body, waist,’ from lîp (b), , ‘life, body, substance’; the meaning ‘life’ has been preserved in  only in compounds such as , ‘sustenance,’ , ‘life-annuity.’  lîb,  and , ‘life,’  lîf,  life;  *leif (b) is wanting (‘life’ is rendered by faírhwus);  líf, , ‘body, life.’ The phonetic kinship with  may be repre - sented in  by λίπ, λῖπ; just as , following  λιπαρεῖν, means  ‘to persist,’ so too  lîba- is  ‘persistence, continuance’; the meaning ‘body, substance,’ is simply   λείπω cannot on account of  linquo be connected with λιπαρέω; it is allied to  , while λιπαρέω with  and  are based on an Aryan root lī̆p in.   ,, ‘lay,’ a term borrowed anew from leich, , ‘song consisting of unequal strophes,’  in a general sense ‘instrumental melody’ (whence  lai was borrowed). It corresponds to laiks, ‘dance,’ from laikan, ‘to dance,’  lâc,, ‘play, tilting,’ from lâcan, ‘to leap, dance.’ Since   is only a loanword, no further remarks are necessary concerning the specifically  root laik and its wide ramifications.   ,, ‘corpse,’ from lîch, lîche, , ‘body, substance,’ also ‘dead body, corpse’; in  the specialised meaning, which in the earlier   was subordinate to the more general sense ‘body’ as substance, has now become the prevalent one. lîh (hh), and, ‘body, flesh,’  lîc, , ‘body, substance, corpse’ (for  like  );  leik, , ‘flesh, body, corpse.’ In a possessive compound lîk assumed even in the  period the definite meaning ‘body,’ but was modified afterwards in numerous  to a suffix  to   (which see). The signification ‘body’ has been retained in, ‘corn,’  ‘thorn in the body’ ( líkþorn). —   ,, ‘dead body, corpse,’ from lîchname,  lîhhinamo, , ‘body, substance, corpse’;  lîhhinamo for *lihhin-hamo is based on a  form *lîkan-, *lîkin- (  manleika, ‘image’); at all events,  lîhhin-amo is not a corruption of  lîkhamo, , ‘body’;  lîhhamo (by syncope lîhmo),  lîchame, ,  lîc-hǫma,  líkamr (líkame), , ‘body.’ The second component is an obsolete noun (ham, hamo), meaning ‘form, covering’;   hamr, ‘skin, shape,’  homa, ‘covering’;  anahamôn, gahamôn, ‘to put on (clothes), dress’ ( , , and ). Therefore probably signified  ‘body,’  ‘covering or form of flesh,’ i.e. ‘body of flesh, in so far as it is endowed with life.’ The compound has a rather poetical air about it, and in fact