lacu
LatinEdit
NounEdit
lacū
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną (“to water, wet, irrigate, drain”), causative of Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Old Saxon laca (in placenames, “lake, stream, brook”), Old Norse lækr (“slow flowing stream”), Old English leċċan (“to make wet, moisten”), Old Norse leka (“to drip, leak”). Maybe related to Old High German lacha (“pool, water collected in a ditch, swamp”), Middle Dutch lāke (“pond, lake, stream, brook”), Middle Low German lāke (“water pooled in a riverbed”), which could also be borrowed from lacus (“lake, basin, tank”). More at leak.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lacu f
- pool, pond
- expanse of water, lake
- stream, watercourse
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “lake, n.3.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021.
Further readingEdit
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “lacu”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 179
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “lacu”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
SakizayaEdit
NounEdit
lacu
SicilianEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
NounEdit
lacu m