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Unknown. According to an older hypothesis, perhaps related to Bretonlagad(“eye, look”), Welshllygad(“eye”), Cornishlagas(“eye”), for a Proto-Indo-European root *lewg-(“to look; eye”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) However, this Celtic set is more commonly derived from *lewk-(“to shine”),[1][2][3][4] which could not have produced the Germanic term. Instead, modern authors compare Doric Greekλωγάω(lōgáō, “to pick up; to tell”) and Proto-Tocharian*läk-(“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-(“to gather”) with a semantic shift paralleled also in Latinlegō.[5][6]
^ Falileyev, Alexander (2000) “licat”, in Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 103
^ Koch, John (2004) “*lukato-”, in English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, page 112
^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “llygad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “läk-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 596–597: “In West Germanic we have Old English lōcian, Old Saxon lōcōn ‘look,’ in origin an iterative-intensive of this root (PIE *lōĝehₐye/o-), exactly matched morphologically by (Doric) Greek lōgáō (in turn semantically equivalent of légō).”
