Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *lūtanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_lūtaną
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*lewd-to duck, crouch, feign, cringe, become smallliū̃dnassadlottdamage, destruction
verbStrong class 2to bow down, loutFrom Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (‘to duck, crouch, feign, cringe, become small’), a root whose purported descendants are uncertain, but which usually includes Lithuanian liū̃dnas (‘sad’), liū̃sti (‘to become sad’). By synchronic analysis, Kroonen takes the word as a back-formation from the iterative *luttōną (‘to stoop, droop’) (apparently from the same root), and tentatively compares Old Irish lott (‘damage, destruction’).