*agalaitijaz

Possibly haplologically reduced from earlier **aglalaitjaz, from *aglaz + **laitijaz (‘annoying, excited’), the latter compared by Kroonen with Rhinelandic German leizig (Kroonen 2013: 3). The first constituent belongs to the Germanic *ag-/*agl- (‘fear, distress, shame’) group, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ-. The second member **laitjaz is less secure given the single, tentative dialectal reflex. A derivation from Proto-Indo-European *loyd-éye/o-, the o-grade causative/iterative of *leyd-, is phonologically possible and semantically attractive if ‘released, unrestrained’ developed into ‘wanton, licentious’; compare Lithuanian láidyti, Middle Irish láidid, and perhaps Latin lūdō (Rix et al. 2001: 402–403).