Where does “lūs” come from?

lūs (Old English) comes from West Germanic *lūs, from Germanic *lūs, from Proto-Indo-European lewH- — louse.

lūs (Old English): louse

Definitions

  1. louse

Ancestry of “lūs”, step by step

lūs traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via West Germanic *lūs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1West Germanic*lūs—
2Germanic*lūs—
3Proto-Indo-EuropeanlewH-louse

via Proto-Germanic lūs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germaniclūslouse

Words derived from “lūs”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European lewH- →Every word from Germanic *lūs →Every word from West Germanic *lūs →