Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/laku

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lakō.

Noun

*laku f^[1]

stream
pool, lake

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*laku
Genitive	*lakā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*laku	*lakō
Accusative	*lakā	*lakā
Genitive	*lakā	*lakō
Dative	*lakē	lakōm, lakum
Instrumental	*laku	lakōm, lakum

Descendants

Old English: lacu
- Middle English: lake
  - Scots: lake
  - English: lake
  - →? Old French: lac (replacing native Old French lai)
    - Middle French: lac
      - French: lac
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
  - → Danish: lage
    - →? Icelandic: lögur (“brine”)
  - → Old Swedish: laki (in the phrase fiska saltlaki "fish brine")
    - Swedish: lake
  - → Norwegian: lake
  - → Faroese: laki
Old Dutch: *laka
- Middle Dutch: lāke
  - Dutch: laak, laoke (dialectal)
Old High German: lacha, *lahha
- Middle High German: lache
  - German: Lache, Lacke (Austria)
  - 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”))

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *laku”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *laku”

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