lacu

See also: lāču

Latin

Noun

lacū

1. 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.ku/

Noun

lacu f

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

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	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
  • 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

Further reading

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

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ˈt͡su/, [la.ˈt͡su]

Noun

lacu

1. ammunition

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• lagu

Etymology

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

Noun

lacu m

1. lake