Etymology

lice

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Today it means: louse Full definition →

Middle English lys ← Old English lȳs
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromlȳs
  2. Middle English · inherited fromlys
  3. English todaylice

From Middle English lys, from Old English lȳs.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.