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Loc Teutons, who from the earliest times laid special stress on the mode of wearing the hair; the freeman was distinguished by his long streaming locks, while the bondman wore his hair short. The Southerners (see ) were specially struck with the golden curly hair of the Teutons when they first came into contact with them. It is true that curls were considered effeminate by the earlier Northmen, though in Germany they were fondly cherished. also, , , and other words for ‘hair’ peculiar to. The history of the word is obscure;  (as ‘that which is bent’) is most provably connected with an Aryan root, lug, ‘to draw, bend, curve’;   λυγ- in λυγόω, λυγίζω, ‘I bend, tie,’ also λύγος, ‘young, pliant twig’ ( palugnas,, ‘pleasing’?). In the following are also probably allied to these —  lûkan, ‘to draw’ (uslûkan, ‘to unsheathe a sword’), North. to look, ‘to weed,’ liechen, ‘to pluck’ (e.g. the flax out of the ground).  ,, ‘to curl, entice,’ from locken,  locchôn, ‘to entice, allure, decoy,’ with the  variant  lücken,  lucchen. only has a corresponding lokka, ‘to entice.’ To these lugsti, ‘to beg,’ is  allied. , allied to. ,, ‘loose, spongy, dissolute,’ first occurs in early with the  variant loger; in  lucke, lücke (now ); from the same root as  ( root lug). ',, ‘to blaze, flare,’ first occurs in early ; perhaps ‘to spring up (of plants}’; a  word.   lodern, ‘to grow luxuriantly,’ to which  lota, ‘young shoot,’ is allied; for the root lud see under .  ', , ‘spoon, ladle,’ from the   lęffel,  lęffil (lępfil), ; corresponding to  and  lepel (whence  lepill, ‘spoon’), Derived from a  root lap, ‘to drink, lick,’ which is assumed by  laffan, ‘to lick,  lapian, ‘to drink, lap’; further by  lambere, ‘to lick’; hence  means  ‘a utensil for sipping liquids’ (see  and ). The  term is spánn, which was adopted in  as spoon (in  cucelêre,  to  cochlear; see under.  , ( in, ‘in full blaze’), ‘blazing, flaring,’  only; allied to the following word.   (1.),, ‘blaze,’ from lohe,  ( also ), ‘flame, lurid ray,’  *loho ( *laúha); the term used in  was loug,  louc ( lêg, lîg). These, like loge,, ‘flame,’ are derived from the  root luh, ‘to give light,’ which still exists in  , and which as Aryan luk appears in  lucere, lux,  luča, ‘ray,’ and the  ruc, ‘to shine,’ rocis, ‘light.’

 (2.),, ‘tanning bark,’ from the , , and  lô ( lôwes), ;   looi. Distinct from (1), since it presumes a  *lawa-; origin obscure.  ,, ‘to flare. blaze,’ from the  lohen,  lohén; allied to  (1).  ,, ‘reward, wages,’ from the  and  lôn,  and ; a word common to ;  the   laun,  laun,  leán,  loon,  lôn. Since na- is the suffix, we may connect the root lau- with lovŭ, ‘booty, chase,’  lu-crum, ‘gain,’  ἀπολαύω, ‘to partake of’; others make it cognate with Or. lúag, ‘reward.’   ,, ‘darnel,’ from the  lulch, lullich, lulche, ; the  word is wanting, therefore it is difficult to determine when the term was borrowed from the   lolîum. It is also conceivable that the word is independent of the, especially as the former is lengthened by a guttural.   , see.   ,, ‘laurel,’ from lôrber,  lôrbęri,  and ;  ‘the berry of the lôrboum’ ( and ); lôr- in lôr-boum, lôr-beri, is  laurus, ‘laurel tree,’ which was probably known in Germany even before the 7th  (  lauro,  laurier).   ', ',, ‘lot, fate, chance,’ from and  lôȥ,  and , ‘lot, casting lots, drawing a lot, disposal by lottery, division of an inheritance’;   hlauts, ‘lot, inheritance,’  hlaut (hlutr), ‘lot, portion, sacrifice,’  hlŷt and hlot,  lot. To these are allied the  —  hljóta,  hleótan,  hliotan,  lioȥan,  lieȥen, ‘to obtain by lot, acquire.’ This verbal stem in heathen times was probably a sacrificial term (  lieȥen, ‘to predict,’  hlaut, ‘sacrifice’; also Tacitus, Germania, 10). Old derivatives of this root <section end="Los" />