- lighe
- a flood, overflow, Irish, Early Irish lia, Old Irish lie, eluvio, Welsh lli, flood, stream, lliant, fluctus, fluentum, Breton livad, inundation; root lî, leja, flow; Sanskrit riyati, let run; Lithuanian lë/ti, gush; Greek $$Glímnc, lake, $$Glei$$nos, smooth, Latin levis, level, lîmus, mud; etc. Stokes hesitates between root li and roots pleu (English flow) and lev, lav, Latin lavo, luo.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.