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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
lios, a garden, Ir. lios, a fort, habitation, E. Ir. liss, less, enclosure, habitation, W. llys, aula, palatium, Br. les, court, O. Br. lis: *ḷsso-s, a dwelling enclosed by an earthen wall, root plet, broad, Eng. place, Gr. πλατúς, broad; O. H. G. flezzi, house floor, Norse flet, a flat. For root, see leathan.
liosda, slow, tedious, importunate, so Ir., M. Ir. liosta, lisdacht, importunity, E. Ir. lista slow: *li-sso-, root li, smooth, Gr. λισσός, smooth, λεῖος, as in lighe.
liosraig, smooth, press (as cloth after weaving), dress, sliosraig (Badenoch); compare the above word for root and stem.
liotach, stammering, lisping. See lid.
lip, liop liob, a lip Ir. liob; from Eng. lip.
lipinn, lìpinn, a lippie, fourth of a peck; from Sc. lippie.
lìrean, a species of marine fungus (H.S.D.):
lit, porridge, M. Ir. lité, E. Ir. littiu, g. litten, W. llith, mash: *littiôn- (Stokes), *pḷt-tiô, from pelt, polt, Gr. πόλτος, porridge, Lat. puls, pultis, pottage.
litir, a letter, so Ir., E. Ir. liter, W. llythyr, Br. lizer; from Lat. litera.
liubhar (H.S.D. liùbhar), deliver; from the Lat. libero, Eng. liberate.
liùg, a lame hand or foot sneaking look, Ir. liug a sneaking or lame gait, liugaire, cajoler, G. liùgair (do.):
liuth, liutha, liuthad, many, many a, so many, Ir., O. Ir. lia, more, O. W. liaus, Br. liez: *(p)lêjôs, from plê full, Gr. πλείων; Lat. plus, plûres, older pleores; Norse fleiri, more.
liùth, a lythe; from the Sc.
liuthail, liuil, bathing, from liu, li, water (Carm.); M. Ir. lia, flood (Stokes, 249).
loban, lòban, lòpan, a creel for dyring corn basket, wooden frame put inside corn-stacks to keep them dry, basekt peat-cart, peat-creel; from N. laupr basket timber frame of a building, Shet. loopie, Ag. S. léap.
lobanach, draggled, lobair, draggle; from lob, puddle (Armstrong): *loth-bo-, loth of lòn q.v.?
lobh, putrefy Ir. lobhaim, O. Ir. lobat, putrescant, inf. lobad, root lob, wither waste; Lat. lâbi to fall, lâbes, ruin, Eng. lapse.
lobhar, a leper, so Ir., O. Ir. lobur, infirmus, W. llwfr, feeble, O. W. lobur, debile, M. Br. loffr, leprous, Br. laour, lovr, lor, leper. For root see above word.
lobht, a loft, Manx lout, Ir. lota (Connaught); from Norse lopt, Eng. loft.
locair, plane (carpenter's), Ir. locar; from Norse lokar, Ag. S. locer.
