*H-l-g-  “stick, glue”

PMA
  lag               “to adhere, stick to,  
                     join”                    Sanskrit

VISW:
  *Y.-l-G.-                                   pre-IndoEuropean-AfroAsiatic

  *al-g-,         a reduced from o,           Proto-IndoEuropean
  alégo:
  (-ízo:, -ú:no:)   “worry about (something)
                     minding (something)”     Greek
  
  alga              “sea-weed”                Latin
  algos             “sorrow, pain”            Greek
   

  *Y.aláG.- , transitive                      pre-IndoEuropean-AfroAsiatic

  *l-g-                                       Proto-IndoEuropean
  lágati            “sticks to”               Sanskrit
  di:-ligo,
  re-ligens,
  re-ligio,
  neglego                                     Latin
    extended grade
  læ:ce             “leech”                   Old English
  le:che                                      Middle English
  leech                                       English

  *Y.-l-k- (k < G.)                           Proto-AfroAsiatic
  Y.alika           “it hung (bi-hi, to it),
                     was (became) suspended (to it),
                     clung, clave, adhered, 
                     stuck fast (to it),
                     it pertained (to him),
                     concerned (him),
                     he had a hold (upon it),
                     became attached by love (to),
                     loved (her or him)”      Arabic
         IV         “he had (the animal of the chase)
                     caught or stuck fast in his snare,
                     he found (met with) a precious article”
                                              Arabic
  Y.alakun         “anything hung or suspended,
                     attachment, love”        Arabic

    as collective   “leeches” 
  Y.alakatun        “leech”                   Arabic
  Y.alakt           “leech”                   Ethiopian
  Y.ela:ketha:      “leech”                   Judeo-Aramaic
  Y.alakun coll.    “leeches”                 Arabic

  Y.ilkun           “a precious thing,
                     thing held in high 
                     estimation”              Arabic
  Y.ulkatun         “propensio, amor”         Arabic
  Y.a:likun         “hanging, clinging, etc,
                     pertinacious, 
                     adhering to affairs and
                     minding them”            Arabic
  Y.a:likun         “clinging, adhering,
                     holding, sticking fast”  Arabic
  Y.ila:kun         “a thing that is hung 
                     or suspended, amulet”    Arabic
  Y.ala:katun       “an attachment, a tie,
                     connection ,love,
                     friendship”              Arabic
  Y.ila:katun       “strap (or the like) from
                     which something is
                     suspended”               Arabic
  Y.alikatun        “love”                    Arabic
  Y.alu:kun         “a thing that clings, cleaves, 
                     sticks to a man”         Arabic >
  Y.alu:ka          “leech”                   Hebrew
  Y.eluktha:        “leech”                   Judeo-Aramaic
                  > “calamity, misfortune, death”
  3alukå:           “something hard”          Syriac
  Y.ulukuncoll.     “deaths, calamities,
                     occupations, businesses” Arabic
  ta-Y.alluka:tun   “business, office”        Arabic
  Y.ullaikun dimin. “a certain plant that 
                     clings to trees”         Arabic

PMA
  lago-             “glue, to stick to”       Kwaio 
  laku-             “together, to stick to”   Kwaio, also 
  lagu              “to gather together”     
  lago-             “stick”                   Lau 
  lagu-lagu-        “to put together, join”   Lau 
  lado-             “to join”                 Lau 
  lado-             “to join, graft”          Solomon Is. 
  lado-ha           “joining, joint”          Solomon Is.
  leke-             “sticky”                  Hawai'i

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