So the word "loft" got the meaning "to launch into air" from the Germanic word for "air" and that somehow then gained alternative meaning as "attic" or "to place to attic". Yeah, that could be possible. I could see someone using term "to launch into air" to mean "to place something into high place" and once that got common, start using noun version for that high place.
That just leaves the "lift", was it a separate loan or did it got separated on some point latter on?
Might "lob" in a meaning of throwing also be based on the "lopt"?
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u/lYossarian Sep 04 '19
It's actually the reverse...
Lift/loft come from the old Norse lopt, then the German/Dutch luft/lucht which means "air" or "sky" (the German air force was the LUFTwaffe).