hlus

Uncertain. An ancestor Proto-West Germanic *lisku (“sedge”) has been proposed; see French laîche for details. Compare Middle Dutch luusch, Old High German liska.

hlus n

1. reed, sedge

• Middle Low German: lūs, lǖsch

• "hlus" in Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)