lust

English

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lust

Etymology

From Middle English lust,

from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”),

from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic (lustus), and

perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and

Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”),

or to English loose.

Compare list (“to please”), listless.