lokys

Etymology
From (with reduction of the “difficult” cluster tl to l), and cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< ),, 🇨🇬. The term replaced the original word for bear, 🇨🇬 (which may have survived as a fossilized compound in the word, as part of a taboo seen in many other other Indo-European branches. The Baltic terms are of unclear further origin:
 * Perhaps related to 🇨🇬, assuming an earlier form of for the Slavic. This is preferred by Derksen.
 * Connected to, with bears being conceived as “(honey) lickers”; this is formally irreconcilable with the 🇨🇬 cognate above.
 * According to Kortlandt, related to, assuming an earlier form of for the latter. This is phonetically bold and semantically tenuous.
 * Smoczynski, doubting the originality of the anlaut tl- of the Old Prussian forms, instead derives the Baltic terms from an originally adjectival unattested compound > "man-mauler", with the initial part of the compound  dropping out, taking the second part as being from  and comparing 🇨🇬. This assumption regarding the Old Prussian anlaut is phonetically bold, and the derivation from, otherwise unattested in Baltic, is somewhat ad hoc.

Noun

 * 1) bear animal
 * 2) sloven, slob untidy person
 * 1) sloven, slob untidy person