From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-09-26, guido wugi  wrote:   
      
   >> Watkins gives the PIE root as *kleuə- 'to wash, clean'.   
   >> "Cataclysm" (originally a downpour) is another Greek derivative.   
   >> The only other word from this root to turn up in English is "cloaca",   
   >> from the Latin word for sewer.   
   >   
   > German has lauter (> D. louter)   
      
   The Old High German form (h)lūt(t)ar and Old English hlūt(t)or have   
   an initial h-, making the connection clearer.   
      
   > Any clue of a relationship with   
   > *leuə-, like lather, lye, L. lavare, to wash? (lavabo comp. placebo, gazebo)   
      
   No.  They must be reconstructed as different roots.   
      
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