| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | las- |
| DEFINITION: | To be eager, wanton, or unruly.1a. lust, from Old English lust, lust; b. wanderlust, from Old High German lust, desire; c. list5, from Old English lystan, to please, satisfy a desire, from Germanic denominative verb *lustjan. a–c all from suffixed Germanic zero-grade form *lustuz. 2. Suffixed form *las-ko-. lascivious, from Latin lasc vus, wanton, lustful. (Pokorny las- 654.) |
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