Words that come from Germanic *lūs

81 words across 20 languages descend from Germanic *lūs — including lousy, louse, Lausen, woodlouse, vonce, lousiness, lousewort, delouse.

See the etymology of *lūs itself →

German (28)

English (25)

Old High German (3)

Middle English (3)

Yiddish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle High German (2)

Sranan Tongo (2)

Hungarian (2)

Silesian (2)

Luxembourgish (1)

Ido (1)

Esperanto (1)

Dutch (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old English (1)

West Germanic (1)

Polish (1)

Hunsrik (1)