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Lis  word for ;   *lippa,  lip,  lippa,  lip; in  we have perhaps to assume *lipiô,. According to lëpur the  root is lep, and this, following the permutation of consonants, is based on leb. The correspondence with labium is generally accepted; but when this is connected with lambere, ‘to lick,’ difficulties are presented, especially by the meaning. To represent the lip as ‘that which licks’ is not satisfactory. In a  ( laffan,  luof) corresponding to  lambere has been retained, and the rules of gradation show that   cannot be allied to this;  is connected rather with a   *lipan, not *lapan ( laffan). labium was derived perhaps from *lebium ( *lipjô) and connected with lambere; to this lab, ‘lip,’ is allied. The word passed through  into  lippe,, ‘blobber lip.’  ,, ‘to lisp,’ with a diminutive or frequentative suffix from and  lispen, , ‘to stammer’; never ‘to speak through the lips’ as a derivative of  (see ); it rather represents wlispen (thus in  in the 15th , also by transposition, wilspen?). wlisp, wlips, lisp, ‘stammering’;  to lisp,  lispen.  ,, ‘craft, cunning, deceit,’ from and  list,  ( in  and ), ‘wisdom, prudence, slyness, sly purpose, cunning, art.’  lists is by chance not recorded with the  sense only. The meaning ‘prudence’ is the one;  list,, ‘art, propriety, cunning,’  list;  list, , ‘prudence, skill in an art, propriety.’ Thus the signification of the word fluctuates in several  between the  meaning ‘prudence’ and ‘cunning.’ The , as an old abstract in ti ( listi-ns,  ), belongs by its structure to the    lais, ‘I know’; the verbal stem lis, with the  sense ‘to know,’ is still widely diffused in ,   and. Moreover, on the common listi- are based the  cognates of  lĭstĭ and the  class comprising  leste and  lesto, ‘skilful, nimble.’   ,, ‘list, roll’ only, from  liste,  lista, which are again derived from   ( lîste).   ,, ‘twisted lace, bobbin,’ from litze, , ‘twisted lace, cord as a  barrier’; from  lîcium, , ‘thread.’ The change made in the quantity when the word was borrowed in  as lĭtze is analogous to that in  and. From the lîcium (whence  lice, ‘lists, arena’) are also derived  and, which see.   ,, ‘praise,’ from lop (b),  lob,  and , ‘praise, reward, glorification’; corresponding to  lof,  lof, , ‘praise, fame’;  lof. , ‘fame, reward, praise, laudatory poem,’ also ‘permission,’ points to the similarity of the roots of and  (  urloup and urlop, ‘permission’). The old gradation lub-liub-laub comprises, , , and ; in , lufu ( to  love) is the weakest form of the root with the meaning corresponding to   ( liufs), Under  the  sense of the Aryan root leubh ( lubh,  lubet, lubido) is assumed to be ‘inclination’; in meaning,  liaupsě, ‘hymn,’ láupsinti, ‘to extol,’ are the most closely allied. With regard to the gradation, it is also noteworthy that and  loben,  lobôn, lobên,,  lofian, , ‘to praise,’ are represented in  by lofa, , ‘to praise, commend, permit,’ and that  leyfa (from *laubjan) has also the same double sense. — and  lobesam,, ‘laudable,’  lobosam,  lofsum;  galufs, galaufs, ‘precious,’  ‘having praise,’ so too  glob, ‘precious.’   ,, ‘hole, dungeon, haunt,’ from loch, ,  loh,  lohhes, , ‘enclosed place, prison, lurking-place, cave, hole, opening.’   loc, , ‘enclosed place, lock’; loca, , ‘enclosed place, prison’; from the former  lock is derived. The various meanings all originate in ‘enclosed place’;  usluka-, ‘opening.’ The  is formed by gradation from an old   (obsolete in ),  lûchen,  lûhhan,  lûkan,  lûcan, ‘to lock,’ which may be compared (since the Pre- root is lū̆g) with  lúżtu (lúżti), ‘to be broken,’ as well as with  ruj, ‘to break.’   ,, ‘lock, curl, tress,’ from the  loc ( locke),  loc ( locchâ), ;   locc,  lock,  lokkr,  lok, ‘lock’ A common  word for ‘lock’ ( *lukks is by chance not recorded), and peculiar to the 