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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[ruin]], [[havoc]], [[death]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 2. member in <b class="b3">βροτο-λοιγός</b> [[destroying men]] (of Ares; Il.), also in <b class="b3">ἀθηρη-λοιγός</b> "consumer of chaff" (?), [[winnowing-fan]] (Od.).<br />Derivatives: [[λοίγιος]] [[destroying]], [[bringing disaster]] (Il.), also [[λοιγήεις]], <b class="b3">-ής</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Nic.; poet. transformations, cf. Schwyzer 527: 2 and 513: [[β]]); <b class="b3">λοιγίστρια ὀλοθρεύτρια</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [667] <b class="b2">*leig-</b> [[illness]]<br />Etymology: Prop. agent noun "the destroyer" (cf. Porzig Satzinhalte 307) of a primary verb preserved in Lith. <b class="b2">líegti</b> [[be very ill]], [[be ailing]] (IE <b class="b2">*leig-</b>), to which belongs also the zero grade nom. actionis <b class="b2">ligà</b>, Latv. [[liga]] [[illness]], [[plague]]; further perh. Alb. [[lig]] [[bad]], [[meagre]] and (with IE <b class="b2">*k</b>) OIr. [[līach]] [[miserable]], [[unhappy]]. (Not here [[ὀλίγος]] [[slight]], [[small]] and Arm. <b class="b2">aɫk`-at</b> [[poor]]. - WP. 2, 398, Pok. 667, Fraenkel Wb. s. <b class="b2">ligà</b>. Uncertain combinations in Krogmann IF 53, 44ff., Jegers Balt. Etymologien (Comment. Balt. IV--V: 3, Bonn 1958) 20ff., Specht Ursprung 125, 218, 226.