Asturian lueu, French louer, Italian locare
Basque leku "place" (borrowed from *lueko in a Romance language)
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Asturian llugar, Portuguese lugar, Galician lugar, Catalan locar, French local
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Asturian lluna, Portuguese lua, Galician lúa, Catalan lluna, French lune, Italian luna, Aromanian lunã, Romanian lunã, Sardinian luna
Old Irish lúain "Monday"
Old Prussian lauxnos "stars"
Ancient Greek λύχνος (lykhnos) "lamp"
Avestan raoxšna- "light"
At a very late date of Proto-Indo-European in the north-west we see a pre-form *louk-s-neh2- develop meaning "moon." This replaced the older Proto-Indo-European name for the moon based on "to measure" *meh1-, as the month was marked in moons.
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Old English lobbe "spider," Frisian lobbe "lump of flesh"
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Asturian lluza, Portuguese luz, Galician luz, Italian luce, Sardinian luche
Gothic liuhaþ "light," Old Norse ljóss "bright," Old High German lioht "light," Old English lēoht 'id.' (English light)
Russian luč "ray," Czech louč "torch," Slovene lúč "light (from a fire)," Old Prussian luckis "torch"
Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós) "light"
Armenian lowc'anem "to lighten"
Sanskrit rócate "to shine," Young Avestan raocaiia- "to make shine"
A luk- "to shine," B luk- 'id.'
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