Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *lappōnąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_lappōną
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λάπτωidemlambōto lick
verbWeak class 2to lap, lick upFrom Pre-Germanic *lap-néh₂- (‘to lick’). The root was probably onomatopoeic and might have come about after the PIE period proper. Related to Latin lambō (‘to lick’), Lithuanian lapènti (‘to drink greedily (of pigs)’), Ancient Greek λάπτω (láptō, ‘idem’), Albanian lap (‘to lick or lap up water’), Russian ло́пать (lópatʹ, ‘to gobble up’).