Comparative evidence

leu̯h₁, leu̯h₂, leu̯h₃

• Lat. solūtus -a, -um ‘unbound’, ‘loose’, ‘detached’, ‘fluid’, ‘limp’, ‘facile’, ‘fluent’ (OLD: 1790-1791)

• Lat. soluō -ere ‘loosen’, ‘remove’, ‘release’, ‘untie’, ‘let go’, ‘relax’, ‘to free from’, ‘cancel’, ‘discharge’, ‘pay’ (OLD: 1787-1789)

• Lat. luō -ere ‘suffer by way of expiation’, ‘expiate’, ‘pay as fine’, ‘pay’, ‘avert’, ‘fulfil’, ‘liberate’, ‘set free’ (OLD: 1051)perf. lūī

References

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