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Proto-Indo-European[edit]
*leyg-[1]
- to jump around, run around
- Synonyms: *lek-, *prew-, *sel- (“jump”)
- to play, frolic
- Synonym: *leyd-
- to shake, jitter; to dance
- Synonyms: *kʷeh₁t-, *sper-, *weyp-
Derived terms[edit]
- *lóyg-e-ti (o-grade root present?)
- Proto-Germanic: *laikaną (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ráyǰati
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ráyȷ́ati
- Sanskrit: रेजति (réjati), रेजते (réjate) (usually instead < *h₁leiǵ-)
- *loyg-éye-ti (iterative)
- Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Indo-Iranian: *lig-e-
*leyg-
- similar, like
- even, level (e.g. of a surface)
Derived terms[edit]
- Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Lithuanian: lygiuoti
- Lithuanian: lýgus (“equal, level, flat, even, like”)
- Latgalian: leigt' (“to agree, to make peace, to make a deal”)
- Latvian: līdz (“flat”)
- Latvian: līdzīgs (“alike, similar, equal, even”)
- Latvian: līgt
- Lithuanian: lygti
- Old Prussian: līgint, Old Prussian: līginton
- Proto-Germanic: *līką (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *līkāną (see there for further descendants)
References[edit]
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN