Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Juicy, succulent. · Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. · Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant. · Savoury, delicious.
From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskwī̆, from Proto-Germanic *laskuz, *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.
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- Inherited-form mentionluschenm
- Inherited-form mention*lysċang
- Inherited-form mention*laskwī̆gmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*laskuzgem-pro
- Derivation mention*lēy-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionlysuang
- Cognate mentionlaschgml
- Cognate mentionerleswengmh
- Cognate mentionlǫskrnon
- Cognate mention𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃got
- Cognate mentionlasgml
- Cognate mentionluschnds
- Doublet mentionlusken
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