köken: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom Gaulish *loudonbor.? Proto-West Germanic *laud Old High German *lōt Middle High German lōt German Lot Inherited from Middle High German lōt, from Old High German *lōt, from Proto-West Germanic *laud, possibly borrowed from Gaulish *loudon, from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom (“lead”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *stagnombor. Latin stannum Old Spanish estanno Spanish estaño Inherited from Old Spanish estanno, from Latin stannum, stagnum, of Celtic origin; compare Irish stán.
köken: Cognate with Arabic لَحْم (laḥm, “meat”), with the varying semantic developments being due to the differing agriculture and diets of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent. The verb follows from the noun and is usually employed to form figurae etymologicae.
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German lode (“piece of lead (used as weight), plummet”), or perhaps from an East Frisian word (compare Saterland Frisian Lood) or Middle Dutch lood, which all had the same meaning (compare German Lot (“plummet, solder”)), itself a borrowing from Celtic (originally meaning “easily melting metal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow”), whence also Latvian…