liicht

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬/Low German licht, 🇨🇬. As to the vocalism: In an early development long vowels before -[c]ht were regularly shortened (as they have been in Dutch and Low German). Later, in a converse step, Luxembourgish lengthened all vowels in the same position (cf. with an originally short vowel). Since the diphthongisation of old -ī-, -iu-, -ū- occurred at some point between the said shortening and lengthening, this diphthongisation was ‟skipped” in old -īht, -iuht, -ūht (cf. also from ).

Adjective

 * 1) light, lightweight
 * 2) easy