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Most likely a formation after lëndë(“timber”), similarly to the connection of vis with vend.
Alternatively, Orel suggests a borrowing from Proto-Slavic*lěsъ(“forest, woods”), whence Serbo-Croatianlȇs / ле̑с, Bulgarianлес(les), although in this case one would expect the auslaut to have undergone palatalization. Because of the /-i-/ < *-ě-, the Slavic dialect is identified as Ikavian.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līs, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 345–346
Further reading
“lis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“lis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"lis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
lis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the case is still undecided: adhuc sub iudice lis est (Hor. A. P. 77)
to lose one's case: causā or lite cadere (owing to some informality)
chicanery (specially of wrongfully accusing an innocent man): calumniae litium (Mil. 27. 74)
(ambiguous) to go to law with, sue a person: litem alicui intendere
(ambiguous) to win a case: causam or litem obtinere
(ambiguous) to lose one's case: causam or litem amittere, perdere