ᴱ√LEPE root. “*finger”

References ✧ PE13/148; QL/53

Derivatives

• > ᴱ✶lept- ✧ PE13/148
  • > ᴱN. lhê “finger” ✧ PE13/148
• > ᴱQ. lempe² “crook, hook” ✧ QL/53
• > ᴱQ. lep- “to take”
• > ᴱQ. lepsile “tendril” ✧ QL/53
• > ᴱQ. lepta¹ “hooked (as a tendril)” ✧ QL/53
• > ᴱQ. let “finger” ✧ QL/53
• > G. leb- “to pick, pluck, take or feel or touch with fingers, cull”
• > G. lemp¹ “crooked finger; little finger”
• > G. lempa- “to beckon, crook the finger”
  • ⇒ G. lempachùn “wishbone” ✧ GL/53
• > G. leptha “finger”
  • ⇒ 5 compounds