An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Lot

by Friedrich Kluge

Lot, neuter, ‘lead (or soft metal), half an ounce,’ from Middle High German lôt (in Old High German by chance not recorded), neuter, ‘lead, weight cast from lead’; corresponding to Dutch lood, ‘lead, kind of weight,’ Anglo-Saxon leád, English lead. The old West Teutonic *lauda-, neuter, ‘lead,’ is connected with the equivalent Old Irish luáide. —