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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lakō
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑ.kɔː/
Noun
*lakō f
- leak; drain; ditch
- seep; water aggregation, puddle, pool; lake
Inflection
ō-stemDeclension of *lakō (ō-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *lakō | *lakôz | |
vocative | *lakō | *lakôz | |
accusative | *lakǭ | *lakōz | |
genitive | *lakōz | *lakǫ̂ | |
dative | *lakōi | *lakōmaz | |
instrumental | *lakō | *lakōmiz |
Related terms
- *lakjaną
- *lōkiz
Derived terms
- Proto-West Germanic: *laku
- Old English: lacu
- Middle English: lake
- Scots: lake
- English: lake
- →? Old French: lac (replacing native Old French lai)
- Middle French: lac
- French: lac
- Middle French: lac
- Middle English: lake
- Old Frisian: *lake
- >? Saterland Frisian: Loge (“brine”) (perhaps merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *lagu)
- Old Saxon: laca (in placenames)
- Middle Low German: lāke
- German Low German: Lake, Laak
- → German: Lake
- Middle Low German: lāke
- Old Dutch: *laka
- Middle Dutch: lāke
- Dutch: laak
- Middle Dutch: lāke
- Old High German: lacha, *lahha
- Middle High German: lache
- German: Lache, Lacke
- Luxembourgish: Laach
- → Vulgar Latin: *lacca
- Italian: lacca
- >? Old Occitan: lac, laz, latz (“pit, trench, pitfall”) (merged with descendant of Latin laqueus (“knot, noose, snare, trap”))
- Middle High German: lache
- Old English: lacu
- → Old Church Slavonic: локꙑ (loky)