lacu

lacū

1. ablative singular of lacus

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.ku/

lacu f

1. pool, pond
2. expanse of water, lake
3. stream, watercourse

Strong ō-stem:

• fisċlacu
• ġemǣrlacu
• mǣdlacu

• Middle English: lake
  • English: lake
  • Scots: lake, laik
  • →? Old French: lac (replacing Old French lai from Latin lacus)
    • Middle French: lac
      • French: lac
    • → Middle English: lac, lak
      • Scots: lak, lack

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “lacu”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 179
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lacu”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /la.ˈt͡su/, [la.ˈt͡su]

lacu

1. ammunition

• lagu

From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

lacu m

1. lake