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 to speak; Lithuanian balsas = voice, tone. Really bhel-sô = to be bright or luminous. Compare Greek [Greek: pha/los] = bright, Lithuanian bálti = to become white, Middle High German blasz = pale. The root lâ, with the meaning of "to make sound, to bark," is found in Sanskrit las, lásati = to resound; and las, lásati = to radiate, to shine. The related root lesô, with the meaning "desire," is also found in Sanskrit las, lásati = to play; lash, láshati = to desire. Greek [Greek: la/stauros] = lustful, Gothic lustus, New High German Lust, Latin lascivus. A further related root, lásô = to shine, to radiate, is found in las, lásati = to radiate, to shine. This group unites, as is evident, the meanings of "to desire, to play, to radiate, and to sound." A similar archaic confluence of meanings in the primal libido symbolism (as we are perhaps justified in calling it) is found in that class of Egyptian words which are derived from the closely related roots ben and bel and the reduplication benben and belbel. The original significance of these roots is "to burst forth, to emerge, to extrude, to well out," with the associated idea of bubbling, boiling and roundness. Belbel, accompanied by the sign of the obelisk, of originally phallic nature, means source of light. The obelisk itself had besides the names of techenu and men also the name benben, more rarely berber and belbel.[41] The libido symbolism makes clear this connection, it seems to me. The Indo-Germanic root vel, with the meaning "to wave, to undulate" (fire), is found in Sanskrit ulunka