Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
5. Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
6. Proto-Germanic *lēgaz
7. Old Norse lágrbor.
8. Middle English lāh
9. English low
10. From Middle English lah, loue, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“low; flat”), from *ligjaną (“to lie; to lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti (“to be lying down”), from *legʰ- (“to lie”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Saterland Frisian läich (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), German Low German leeg, leeg' (“low; inferior”), West Flemish leeg (“lazy”), Danish lav (“low”), Faroese and Icelandic lágur (“low”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish låg (“low”), Finnish laaka (“flat”), Ingrian laaku (“gentle”); also Irish laigh, luigh (“to lie”), Manx lhie (“lie; lay”), Scottish Gaelic laigh (“lie; lay”), Faliscan 𐌋𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌕 (lecet, “he lies down”), Latin lectus (“bed”), South Picene 𐌅𐌄𐌉𐌀𐌕 (veiat, “to lie”), Ancient Greek λέχομαι (lékhomai, “to lie down”), Albanian lag (“band, encampment, troop”), Belarusian ляжа́ць (ljažácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лежа́ (ležá, “to lie”), Czech ležet (“to lie”), Macedonian лежи (leži, “to lie”), Polish leżeć (“to lie”), Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian лѐжати, lèžati (“to lie”), Slovene ležáti (“to lie”), Ukrainian лежа́ти (ležáty, “to lie”), Tocharian B lyäk- (“to lie”). More at lie. See: Proto-Indo-European '
*légʰyeti', Irish '
laigh', Manx '
lhie', Scots Gaelic '
laigh', Greek, Ancient '
λέχομαι', Albanian '
lag', Belarusan '
ляжа́ць', Czech '
ležet', Macedonian '
лежи', Polish '
leżeć', Russian '
лежа́ть', Slovene '
ležáti', Ukrainian '
лежа́ти'.
Verbs referencing "low"
Latin
calo, Greek, Ancient
καλέω, Proto-Slavic
lězti, Proto-Slavic
laziti.