Lítan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

from lútan, as bígan from búgan

lítan

to cause to bow, to bend, incline :-- Ðæt ingeþonc ǽlces monnes ðone líchoman lít ðider hit wile the mind of every man inclines the body whither it will, Bt. Met. Fox 26, 237; Met. 26, 119. litan