| Part of speech | common noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /lox/ |
| Hyphenation | loog |
| Gender | neuter / historically feminine, nowadays also masculine |
| Catalan | lleixiu |
|---|---|
| Czech | louh |
| English | lye |
| Esperanto | lesivo |
| Faeroese | lútur |
| French | lessive |
| German | Lauge |
| Saterland Frisian | Looie |
| Spanish | lejía |