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Los hlut, which is peculiar to, passed also into ;  lotto, ‘lottery urn,’  lot, ‘share,’  lotir, ‘to cast lots, predict,’  loterie, ‘lottery.’  ,, ‘loose, released,’ from lôs, ‘free, unimpeded, bare, plundered, released, wanton, not solid, frivolous’; corresponding to  laus, ‘empty, invalid, vain,’  ‘loose, free, unimpeded,’  leás, ‘loose, false, deceitful’ (to this is allied  leas, ‘lie’ and  -less, only as the second part of a compound;  loose is borrowed from ),  los,  lôs; the  form lausa-, common to , is from the root lus, ‘to be loose,’ discussed under. From the  is derived  lozano, ‘merry, cheerful.’ See.   (1.),, ‘to extinguish, go out’; in the  two   are comprised,  lëschen (most frequently erlëschen),  , ‘to cease to burn, go out,’ and the corresponding factitive lęschen, ‘to extinguish’;   lëskan, irlëskan, , and lęsken, ; this verbal stem is unknown to the other  languages. The sk of lëskan is really a suffix of the  stem (see  and ), as may be inferred from the connection with the  root leg (see );  is  ‘to lie down.’

 (2.),, ‘to discharge a ship,’ borrowed from the ,  lossen;   losse,  lossa; the origin and early history of the cognates are unknown ( , , and ).   ,, ‘to loosen, free,’ from the  lœsen,  lôsen (*lôsjan); a derivative of the  and   lôs (see );   lausjan, ‘to loosen,’ from , ‘loose.’   ,, ‘war-cry, watchword,’ from the late  losunge, lôȥunge, the first appearance of which in the 15th  makes it impossible to determine the correct  form and its derivation (from ? or from , ‘to hear’? see ).   ,, ‘lead (or soft metal), half an ounce,’ from lôt (in  by chance not recorded), , ‘lead, weight cast from lead’; corresponding to  lood, ‘lead, kind of weight,’  leád,  lead. The old West *lauda-,, ‘lead,’ is connected with the   luáide. —   ,, from the  lœten, ‘to solder,’ is a derivative of. —   , ‘of due alloy,’ corresponds in compounds to  lœtec, ‘of full weight, containing the due proportion of a noble metal.’   ,, ‘pilot,’ like (2)  only; borrowed from  and  loots, loods, ‘pilot.’ Perhaps the word originated in  in which loadsman, ‘steersman,’ occurs as an old compound of load,  lâd, ‘street, way’ (see ). With regard to the o in, see. <section end="Lotse" /> <section begin="Lotter-" /> , in compounds like, ‘vagrant, knave,’ from loter, ‘slack, light-minded, frivolous, knave, ne'er-do-well, buffoon,’  lotar, ‘empty, vain’;   loddêre, ‘villain.’ Allied to. <section end="Lotter-" /> <section begin="Löwe" /> ,, ‘lion,’ from the  lęwe, lëwe (louwe, löuwe),  lëwo, lęwo (louwo), ;   and  leo,  leeuw; undoubtedly a loan-word, since there is no common  and no old Aryan term for ‘lion.’  leo, however, does not suffice to explain all the  forms of Middle Europe. louwo and löuwe, ‘lion,’ are specially abnormal ( lion is derived from  lion). These late occurring forms with ou are preserved in  names of places and streets, such as,. The  lunze (also lewinne), ‘lioness,’ still remains obscure. <section end="Löwe" /> <section begin="Luchs" /> ,, ‘lynx,’ from the  and  luhs, ; corresponding to  lox,  losch,  lox,. The s of this stem is a suffix, as in ; hence  lô ( *laúhô), and in the non- languages  lúszis,  λυγκ-, ‘lynx.’ It is probably related to the root luh in  ( ljós, ‘light,’  lîxan, ‘to give light’), since the sharp, gleaming eyes of the lynx may have given rise to the name. <section end="Luchs" /> <section begin="Lücke" /> ,, ‘gap, chasm,’ from lücke, lucke,  lucka, from *luggja, , ‘hole, gap,’ closely allied to  ( loger,  luck). The  contain a  form *luggia (Swiss lugg, not lukχ), hence  luccha, ‘gap,’ is abnormal. For this reason too the phonetic relation of the word to is obscure. <section end="Lücke" /> <section begin="Luder" /> ,, ‘lure, decoy, bait,’ from luoder, , ‘bait, gluttony, dissolute life, loose woman’ (from an  lôþra- is derived  leurre, ‘lure, bait’). Its connection with  is probable, since ‘bait’ is the  sense. <section end="Luder" /> <section begin="Lüderlich" /> , see. <section end="Lüderlich" />