Where does “les” come from?

les (Tok Pisin) comes from English lazy, from Middle Low German lasich, from Middle Low German las, from Old Saxon lahs, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

les (Tok Pisin): lazy

Definitions

  1. lazy

Ancestry of “les”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlazyUnwilling to do work or make an effort;...
2Middle Low Germanlasichslack, languid, idle; slack, feeble, lazy
3Middle Low Germanlaspatch, scrap; tired, dull; salmon
4Old Saxonlahs—
5Proto-Germaniclahsazsalmon
6Chinese拉薩—
7Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
8Old Tibetanར་ས—
Every word from Old Tibetan ར་ས →