*léyd-ti ~ *lid-énti(athematic root present)(or perhaps this and the following (reduplicated) verb should be reconstructed asmolō-present*lóyd- ~ *léyd-[2])
Proto-Balto-Slavic:*léiˀstei[3] (see there for further descendants)
↑5.05.15.2Jokl, Norbert (1911),Studien zur albanesischen Etymologie und Wortbildung (Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften;168) (in German), Vienna: A. Hölder,pages226-228
^Meyer,G. (1891), “l'ɛ̇”, inEtymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner,→DOI,page242
^Derksen, Rick (2015), “laiškas”, inEtymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;13), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages270–271
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^Seebold, Elmar (1970), “LAIK-A-”, inVergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica;85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton,→ISBN, pages321-322
^Ernout, Alfred;Meillet, Antoine (1985), “lūdō”, inDictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections ofJacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published2001, pages656-657: “*loidō”
↑6.06.1De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “lūdō, -ere”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages350–351: “PIt. *loid-e/o- ‘to play’, *loido- ‘play’”