L-M-K – ‘binding, association’

The roots of this name are clear and simple. It is, on the one part, לו, which contains all ideas of cohesion and agglutination, and on the other מוך, which develops all those of liquefactions, dissolution, prostration, submission, etc. Therefore, this name characterizes the kind of bond which prevents a thing, at first, vehement, violent, and now subdued, softened, cast down, ready to be dissolved, from being dissolved and from being wholly dissipated. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, pp. 139)