Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To bathe or wash (someone or something). · Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash. · Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle. · To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash. · The sea.
The verb is derived from Middle English laven (“to bathe, wash; to bail or draw water, drain, exhaust; to dampen, wet; to pour; of water, etc.: to flow, stream”), and then partly: * from Old French laver (“to be washed; to wash”) (modern French laver (“to wash (oneself)”)), from Latin lavāre, the present active infinitive of lavō (“to bathe, wash; to dampen, wet”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”); and * from Old English lafian (“to bathe; to make wet; to ladle out; to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *labōn (“to refresh, revitalize; to strengthen”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Latin lavō (see above) but this does not explain the change in meaning from “to wash; to wet” to “to refresh; to strengthen”. Perhaps Old English lafian is derived directly from the Latin word, and Proto-West Germanic *labōn and words in languages derived from it such as Dutch and German are coincidentally similar to the Old English word. The noun is derived from the verb.
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- Root classification mention*lewh₃-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionlavenenm · to bathe, wash; to bail or draw water, drain, exhaust; to dampen, wet; to pour; of water, etc.: to flow, stream
- Derivation mentionlaverfro · to be washed; to wash
- Cognate mentionlaverfr · to wash (oneself)
- Derivation mentionlavārela
- Derivation mention*lewh₃-ine-pro · to wash
- Inherited-form mentionlafianang · to bathe; to make wet; to ladle out; to pour
- Inherited-form mention*labōngmw-pro · to refresh, revitalize; to strengthen
- Derivation mentionlavōla
- Cognate mentionlafianang
- Cognate mention*labōngmw-pro
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