German <Late>, <Lite> (note odd vowel alternation) "serf(?)", known
mainly from Lower Saxony, ie Nordwestblock; Medieval Latin <laetus>,
thus *lait-, *le:t- (claims Kuhn). He further compares with
Langobardian (in Latin) <aldius>, <aldio>.
Note the "detachable /a/". That means, I conclude, it's a "bird
language" (and therefore "Old European") root. If this root is a self-
name of the Nordwestblockers (subjugated by the Germani from Th...)
we have a handle on the origin of these people.
Another "detachable /a/" root: Lith <akmen->, Russ <kamen'>, Germanic
<hammer> etc (?).
Does <apple>, Lat <malus>, Russ <jabloko> etc go here too? If so,
that <-ko> is not satem (and can't be used to prove the existence of
plain *k in suffixes).
Torsten