Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Deception; guile. · A cheat; a go-by.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo deceive; beguile. · To cheat; befool.
From Middle English lirten, lurten (“to cheat”), from Old English *lyrtan (found only in belyrtan (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *lurtijan (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *lerd- (“to bend, crook”). Cognate with Scots lirt (“to cheat, deceive, delude”), Middle High German lürzen (“to deceive”), Middle High German lerz, lurz, lorz (“left, left-handed”), Old English lort, lyrt (“crooked”).
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- Root classification mention*lerd-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionlirtenenm
- Inherited-form mention*lyrtanang
- Inherited-form mention*lurtijangmw-pro · to deceive
- Derivation mention*lerd-ine-pro · to bend, crook
- Cognate mentionlirtsco · to cheat, deceive, delude
- Cognate mentionlürzengmh · to deceive
- Cognate mentionlerzgmh
- Cognate mentionlortang
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