lake

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
2. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
3. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
4. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To present an offering.
2. To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
3. Subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

Verb

To make lake-red.

Concepts

lac

laque

étang

mer

eau d’un lac

marais

étendue d’eau

bassin

loch

mare

lacustre

lac|lacs

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/leɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Arose from a conflation of the form of inherited Middle English lake (“small stream of running water, pool, lake”) with Middle English lac (“lake”), from Old French lac (“lake”) or Latin lacus (“lake, basin, tank”), see lac. The former, lake (“stream, pool, lake”), is inherited from Old English lacu (“stream, pool, expanse of water, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“stream, pool, water aggregation”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”). It is related to Dutch laak (“stream, drainage ditch, pond”), German Low German Lake, Laak (“drainage, marshland”), German Lache (“puddle”), Icelandic lækur (“stream”).
Despite their similarity in form and meaning, Old English lacu is not related to English lay (“lake”), Latin lacus (“hollow, lake, pond”), Scottish Gaelic loch (“lake”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, tank, pond, pit”), all from Proto-Indo-European *lókus, *l̥kwés (“lake, pool”).