Cognate Set 8364 – Meaning: wash

IE-CoR reference form:
*leh₃u̯-
IE-CoR reference language:
Proto-Indo-European
Ideophonic:
no
Parallel derivation:
no
Justification:
Anatolian, Hellenic, Albanian, and Italic lexemes derived from PIE *leh₃u̯-'to pour; to wash' (LIV² Addenda \& Corrigenda and Melchert 2011:127-132; cf. Kloekhorst 2008:511-513, Beekes 2010:872-873, Meyer 1891:237, Huld 1984:85, Demiraj 1997:230-231, Orel 1998:210, Schumacher & Matzinger 2013:980, de Vaan 2008:330-331).
Found in clades:
Albanian, Anatolian, Italic
Revised by:
Matthew Scarborough
Found in 3 clades by 24 lexemes.
Language Lexeme Native script Phonetic Phonemic Notes
136   French laver lave lave
129   Italian lavare laˈvaːɾe laˈvare
131   Ladin lavé laˈve
144   Portuguese lavar lɐˈvaɾ lɐˈvaɾ
143   Spanish lavar laˈβaɾ laˈbaɾ
137   Walloon laver laˈve laˈve
124   Latin lauāre ɫaˈwaːre laˈwaːre lauō, lauāre, lauāuī, lauātum
130   Friulian lavâ laˈva laˈvaː
18   Albanian: Gheg laj
2   Luvian lāḫun(a)i- la-ḫu-ni-i-ḫa (CL) Native script form la-ḫu-ni-i-ḫa is 1.sg.pret.
147   Umbrian vutu Native script: vutu (3.sg.imptv., IIa 39). Latin script anderuomu (3.sg.imptv.pass. + preverb anter, VIb 41).
19   Albanian: Standard laj
128   Neapolitan lavà laˈva laˈva
135   Anglo-Norman laver
139   Franco-Provençal lavâ laˈvɑ laˈvɑ
142   Old Spanish lavar laˈβar
125   Romanian spăla spəˈla spəˈla < Lat. *experlavare.
138   Old Occitan levar levar (remove something, like dirt, from something). Netejar can also be used for cleaning dirt from something
140   Old Catalan llavar ʎəˈβa ʎəˈβa
126   Megleno-Romanian spilári
127   Dalmatian: Vegliote lavúr laˈvur
20   Albanian: Arbëresh ljanj ˈʎaɲ
145   Portuguese: Brazilian lavar
132   Milanese lavàa laˈva
References
  • Beekes, Robert: 872-873
    Cf. s.v. Gk. λούω, -ομαι 'to bathe, wash (the body)', from PIE *louh₃- 'wash, bathe'.
  • Demiraj, Bardhyl: 230-231
    S.v. Alb. la 'waschen, spülen, reinigen', probably to continue a verb of the productive *-n(i̯)o- class: *lh₃-eu̯- > PAlb. *lau̯- > Alb. la-.
  • Huld, Martin E.: 85
    S.v. Alb. laj 'wash', contra Meyer (1891:237) if laj is a loan from Lat. lavāre, then that would have yielded *lëv-oj or *loj.
  • Kloekhorst, Alwin: 511-513
    Cf. s.v. Hitt. lāḫu-, laḫu- 'to pour, to cast (objects from metal); (intr.) to (over)flow' (Anat. cognates: CLuw. lā(ḫ)un(a)i- 'to wash', lū- 'to pour'). The Hitt. forms may be derived from PIE formations *lóh₂u-ei, *lh₂u-énti [but no cognates outside of Anatolian are given].
  • Kümmel, Martin Joachim: http://www.martinkuemmel.de/liv2add.html#_Toc392257980 , http://www.martinkuemmel.de/liv2add.html#_Neu:_*leh₃u̯-_‘gießen,
    It is no longer necessary to postulate two separate roots *leh₂(u̯)- 'pour' for Anatolian and *leu̯h₃- for Italic and Albanian. The two roots can be reconciled to *leh₃u̯- (cf. Melchert 2011:127-132).
  • Melchert, H. Craig: 127-132
  • Meyer, Gustav: 237
    S.v. Alb. l'ań 'wasche, bade', borrowed from Lat. lavāre.
  • Orel, Vladimir: 210
    S.v. Alb. laj ~ lâj 'to wash', from PAlb. *launja and related to Gk. λούω, Lat. lavō 'id.'.
  • Rix, Helmut: 401, 418
    Cf. s.v. ? 2. *leh₂- 'gießen' [IEW 692]. and s.v. *leu̯h₃- 'waschen' (IEW 692).
  • Scarborough, Matthew:
    For root ref. form *leh₃u̯-, cf. [LIV² Addenda \& Corrigenda](src-389) and [Melchert 2011](src-690):127-132.
  • Schumacher, Stefan and Matzinger, Joachim: 980
    S.v. OAlb. lan 'waschen', attested through Old Gheg la (Buzuku) probably continues PIE *leu̯h₃-e/o- with a present-stem n-suffix.
  • de Vaan, Michiel: 330-331
    S.v. Lat. lavō, -āre 'to bathe', from Proto-Italic *lowa- (cf. Umb. <b>vutu</b> [3.sg.iptv.]), from PIE *(le-)louh₃- 'to wash' (cf. Gk. λούω 'I wash', Arm. loganam 'to bathe', lowanam 'wash', OAlb. laa 'to wash').