Meaning
Concepts
slow-going
desidious
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/lœy̯/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch loy, from Proto-Germanic *lujaz. further etymology unsure. May be cognate with the Old Norse adjective lúinn (“exhausted”). Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate, free”), source of Proto-Germanic *lausaz, Albanian lirë.
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