Light

Morpheme

Light

Type

bound base

Denotation

entice, ensnare

Etymology

Middle English -lite; Old French -lit, from -litier; Latin -lectāre, from -licēre, from lacere

Evidence

delight, delighted, delighter, delightful, delightfully, delighting, delightingly, delightless, delightly, delights, delightsome, undelight, undelighting

Notes

unetymological <igh> on analogy of light by in 16c.

See Also

Lice, Lect

Homographs

Light, Light