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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
léku m inan
- genitive/dative/vocative/locative singular of lék
Old Norse
Verb
léku
- third-person plural past active indicative of leika
Phalura
Etymology
Unknown. Cognate with Shina (lekū, “small”), Chilisso (leko, “small”).
Perhaps inherited from Sanskrit लघु (laghu, “light”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓𑁆𑀓- (-kka-), which would make it a doublet of lhoóku.
Pronunciation
Adjective
léku (feminine léki, Perso-Arabic spelling لیۡکوۡ)
- small
- Synonym: lhoóku
References
- Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “léku”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*likka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press