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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *lētaną</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_lētaną</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_grc_ledein" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ληδεῖν</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>lēdeîn</orth>
          </form>
          <def>to be tired</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_lassus" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>lassus</orth>
          <def>weary, faint</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_letana" type="verb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lētaną">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>lētaną</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈlɛː.tɑ.nɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛚᛖᛏᚨᚾᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>verb</pos>
            <gram type="class">Strong class 7d</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>to let, to allow</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>to leave alone</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (‘to let (go), be tired’). Compare Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_lassus"><ref target="#cog_lat_lassus">lassus</ref></mentioned> (‘tired’), Albanian lodh, and possibly Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_ledein"><ref target="#cog_grc_ledein">ληδεῖν</ref></mentioned> (lēdeîn, ‘to be tired’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #sg">
              <orth>lētō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #sg">
              <orth>lētaų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p1 #sg">
              <orth>lētai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>lētizi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>lētaiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #sg">
              <orth>lēt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p2 #sg">
              <orth>lētazai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p2 #sg">
              <orth>lētaizau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>lētidi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>lētai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p3 #sg">
              <orth>lētadau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p3 #sg">
              <orth>lētadai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p3 #sg">
              <orth>lētaidau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #du">
              <orth>lētōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #du">
              <orth>lētaiw</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>lētadiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>lētaidiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #du">
              <orth>lētadiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p1 #pl">
              <orth>lētamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p1 #pl">
              <orth>lētaim</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p1 #pl">
              <orth>lētandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p1 #pl">
              <orth>lētaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>lētid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>lētaid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p2 #pl">
              <orth>lētid</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p2 #pl">
              <orth>lētandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p2 #pl">
              <orth>lētaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>lētandi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>lētain</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #imper #act #p3 #pl">
              <orth>lētandau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #ind #pass #p3 #pl">
              <orth>lētandai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pres #subj #pass #p3 #pl">
              <orth>lētaindau</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #sg">
              <orth>lelōt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #sg">
              <orth>leltį̄</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #sg">
              <orth>lelōst</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #sg">
              <orth>leltīz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p3 #sg">
              <orth>lelōt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p3 #sg">
              <orth>leltī</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #du">
              <orth>leltū</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #du">
              <orth>leltīw</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #du">
              <orth>leltudiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #du">
              <orth>leltīdiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p1 #pl">
              <orth>leltum</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p1 #pl">
              <orth>leltīm</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p2 #pl">
              <orth>leltud</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p2 #pl">
              <orth>leltīd</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #ind #p3 #pl">
              <orth>leltun</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#past #subj #p3 #pl">
              <orth>leltīn</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="participle" subtype="present">
              <orth>lētandz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="participle" subtype="past">
              <orth>lētanaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="infinitive">
              <orth>lētaną</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>lātan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>lâten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>laote</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>lātan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>lâten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>laten</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>laat</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>latn</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>lâte</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Skepi Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>at</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>lǣtan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>leten, letten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>let</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>lat, let, lete</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>leth</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>lēta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>läite</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>litte</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>lāȥen, lān</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>laa, la, loo, lo, lou, lah</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>låssn</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>loße, losse</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>East Central German</lang>
                        <orth>lossn</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>lassen</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>loossen</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>לאָזן (lozn)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norman</lang>
                        <orth>laîssi</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Picard</lang>
                        <orth>laissier</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle English</lang>
                        <orth>*lesen</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>English</lang>
                          <orth>lease, leaze</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Scots</lang>
                          <orth>lease</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle English</lang>
                        <orth>*lesen</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Middle Irish</lang>
                          <orth>léas</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Irish</lang>
                            <orth>léas</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Middle French</lang>
                        <orth>laisser, laissier</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>French</lang>
                          <orth>laisser</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Breton</lang>
                            <orth>lezel</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old French</lang>
                        <orth>lais, laiie, laissie, lesse</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Middle English</lang>
                          <orth>lees, leese, leece, lese</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>English</lang>
                            <orth>lease</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old French</lang>
                        <orth>lais, laiie, laissie, lesse</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Middle English</lang>
                          <orth>lees, leese, leece, lese</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Middle English</lang>
                            <orth>leesshe, leysche, lesshe</orth>
                            <form type="descendant">
                              <lang>English</lang>
                              <orth>leash</orth>
                            </form>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>lāzan, lāȥȥan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old French</lang>
                      <orth>laissier, laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Old French</lang>
                        <orth>lais, laiie, laissie, lesse</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Middle French</lang>
                          <orth>laie, laissie, laisse</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>English</lang>
                            <orth>laisse</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>French</lang>
                            <orth>laisse</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Italian</lang>
                            <orth>lassa</orth>
                          </form>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Spanish</lang>
                            <orth>laja</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*lātan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>lātan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>lāten</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>laten</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>laten, låten</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>láta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>låta</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>láta</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>láta</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>láta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>?</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>la</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                      <orth>la, lata, late</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>láta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>latæ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>lade</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>láta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>lāta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>låta</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (leitan)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌻𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (lētan)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
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