Comparative evidence

leh₁

• Lat. lētum -ī, n. ‘death’ (OLD: 1018)

• Lat. lēnis -is, -e ‘slowly or quietly moving’, ‘gentle’, ‘light’, ‘mild’, ‘weak’, ‘mellow’ (OLD: 1015)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.