Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A large quantity or number; a great deal. · A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole. · One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items. · A number of people taken collectively.
To allot; to sort; to apportion. · To count or reckon (on or upon).
From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.
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- Inherited-form mentionlotenm
- Inherited-form mentionhlotang · portion, choice, decision
- Inherited-form mention*hlutgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hlutągem-pro
- Cognate mentionlodfrr
- Cognate mentionLotstq
- Cognate mentionlotfy
- Cognate mentionlotnl
- Cognate mentionlotfr
- Cognate mentionluzgmh
- Doublet mentionlottoen
- Cognate mentionLosde
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