Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. · Lay; not clerical. · Uneducated. · Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner. · To sexualize a character, especially in a fan illustration.
From Middle English lewed, lewd, leued (“unlearned, lay, lascivious”), from Old English lǣwede (“unlearned, ignorant, lay”), of uncertain origin. Formally similar to a derivative of the past participle of Old English lǣwan (“to reveal, betray”) in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-West Germanic *lāwijan, from Proto-Germanic *lēwijaną (“to betray”), from *lēwą (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). If so, then cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen (“to betray”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, “to give over, betray”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, “an opportunity, cause”). Or, according to the OED, probably from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Late Latin lāicus (“of the people”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). The noun is by analogy with nude.
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- Inherited-form mentionlewedenm
- Inherited-form mentionlǣwedeang · unlearned, ignorant, lay
- Derivation mentionlǣwanang · to reveal, betray
- Derivation mention*lāwijangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*lēwijanągem-pro · to betray
- Derivation mention*lēw-ine-pro · to leave
- Cognate mentiongilāengoh
- Cognate mention𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽got · to give over, betray
- Cognate mention𐌻𐌴𐍅got · an opportunity, cause
- Derivation mentionλαϊκόςgrc
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