lacu
Latin
Noun
lacū
- ablative singular of lacus
Old English
Etymology
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]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑ.ku/
Noun
lacu f
- pool, pond
- expanse of water, lake
- stream, watercourse
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lacu | laca, lace |
| accusative | lace | laca, lace |
| genitive | lace | laca |
| dative | lace | lacum |
Derived terms
- fisċlacu
- ġemǣrlacu
- mǣdlacu
Descendants
- Middle English: lake
- English: lake
References
- “lake, n.3.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021.
Further reading
- 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.
Sakizaya
Noun
lacu
- ammunition
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- lagu
Etymology
From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Noun
lacu m
- lake