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Lei lîhan), of which only the allied forms loan and to lend have been preserved in  (  and ). These derivatives, which appear in several dialects, are based on the common  meaning ‘to lend.’ The correspondences in the cognate languages prove that this is only a specialisation of a general sense, ‘to leave,’ The Aryan root lik occurs with the meanings ‘to leave behind, forsake, set free, relinquish’;  ric (for lik),  rinácmi, ‘to abandon a thing, give up, set free, empty, clear, give way for a certain sum’; to this are allied rikthám,, ‘bequest, inheritance,’ reknas, , ‘property left behind, wealth’ (see ), riktás, , and rêku-s, , ‘empty’; also  linquo, relinquo, reliquus;  λείπω, with very numerous meanings, ‘to forsake, leave over or behind, omit’; λοιπός, , ‘remaining’;  léicim ( form leiqó), ‘I leave, relinquish’;  lëku, likti, ‘to leave behind,’ pálaikas, ‘remnant,’  otŭ-lěkŭ, ‘remnant, relic.’  ', ',, ‘sheet,’ from lîlachen, lîlach, , ‘bed-linen, sheet.’ The  and  word originated in lîn-lacken, which form is often recorded in  ( in earlier ), and appears in  as lîn-lahhan; lînl- was assimilated in  to lîll- and ll simplified after a long vowel. A similar course was followed by the cognate lé-rept for *línrept, *línript, ‘linen.’ The derivation of  from  lîhlachen,  lîh-lahhan, ‘body-linen’ (, for  lîh), is less probable, because an assimilation of chl to ll, l, is scarcely credible.   ,, ‘glue, birdlime,’ from the , , and  lîm, ; corresponding to  lijm,  lîm,  lime;  lím, , ‘glue, lime’;  *leima is wanting. The common lîma- is related by gradation to the common  laima-, mentioned under ; the  meaning, ‘earthy, adhesive substance,’ is deduced from the  and  signification ‘glue, lime.’  lîmus, ‘slime,’ is more closely connected with   in meaning, but with   in its graded form î. The root lai, by gradation lî, is authenticated by leir,  (see ), and  li-no, ‘to rub over.’ Its relation to  λειμών, ‘mars,’ and γλοιός, ‘sticky, clammy stuff,’ is less certain.   ,, ‘flax,’ from the  and  lîn,  and ;.   ,, ‘line,’ from and  lîne, , late  lîna, , ‘rope, cable, line,’  ‘towline.’ The derivation from  lînea is doubtful, because the latter does not signify ‘cable’ even in  but specially ‘plumb-line,’ and in  ‘measure of length.’ As far as the sense is concerned, the word is more closely connected with  lînum, ‘thread, cable, rope’; hence  lîna is the  of the  word. In and, however, lînum does not occur in this sense. Perhaps, as an independent derivative of lîn, ‘linen,’ corresponds to  λιναία, λινέα, ‘rope, cord’?. In that case lîne,  line, and  lína ( *leinjô,  ‘what is prepared from flax’), are also formed according to the genuinely  principle (suffix, jôn).   ,, ‘linen,’ a   used as a ,  lînen, lînîn, ‘(of) linen.’ It is based on  lîn, , ‘flax, linen, linen garment,’  and  lîn, ,  lein, , ‘linen.’ In this case, as in that of , it is doubtful whether the term (common  lîna-) is cognate with or borrowed from the similarly sounding words in  and. If the word is really borrowed, the relation of the consonants proves that  was known to the Teutons previous to the permutation of consonants, i.e., long before our era; the same may be said of lîna-, ‘flax,’ since Pliny and Tacitus testify that linen was used among the Teutons when they wrote. Perhaps we may regard Scythian as the source of the cognates, as is indicated by the absence of the word among the Eastern Aryans. lînum, λίνο-ν,  lĭnŭ,  linaì, ‘flax’; λῖ- was retained in the  λῖ-τί,  λῖ-τα, hence the root of lînum, λίνον, is lī̆- and no, the suffix. and. —   ,, is a corruption of  lînwât, , ‘linen,’ connecting it with. The old wât ( and ) has become obsolete in ; like wœ̂d, ‘garment,’ it is allied to a lost Aryan root, wê, ‘to weave.’   ,, ‘canticle,’ borrowed from and early  leis, leise, , ‘spiritual song,’ shortened from kĭrléise. Kyrie eleison was the refrain of hymns.  ,, ‘low, soft, gentle,’ from Mid