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#* {{RQ:Churchill Celebrity|chapter=4|passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the '''lake'''. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}} |
#* {{RQ:Churchill Celebrity|chapter=4|passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the '''lake'''. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}} |
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# A large amount of [[liquid]]; ''as'', a [[wine]] lake. |
# A large amount of [[liquid]]; ''as'', a [[wine]] lake. |
Revision as of 11:35, 22 August 2022
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪk
Etymology 1
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Arose from a contamination 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”). 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”).[1]
Despite their similarity in form and meaning, the word 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”).[2]
Noun
lake (plural lakes)
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
- 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft:
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
- 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft:
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
Usage notes
As with the names of rivers, mounts and mountains, the names of lakes are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: Lake Titicaca or Great Slave Lake. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see lake added to the end, as with Reindeer Lake; lake is usually added before proper names, as with Lake Michigan. This derives from the earlier but now uncommon form lake of ~: for instance, the 19th-century Lake of Annecy is now usually simply Lake Annecy. It frequently occurs, however, that foreign placenames are misunderstood as proper nouns, as with the Chinese Taihu (“Great Lake”) and Qinghai (“Blue Sea”) being frequently rendered as Lake Tai and Qinghai Lake.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:lake
Derived terms
- Bassenthwaite Lake
- Big Lake
- Clear Lake
- Detroit Lakes
- Devils Lake
- ephemeral lake
- Great Lakes
- Great Salt Lake
- Green Lake
- Lake Andes
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
- Lake Asphaltites
- Lake Chad
- Lake City
- Lake County
- Lake District
- Lake Geneva
- lakelet
- Lake Louise
- lakeness
- Lake of the Woods
- Lakes
- lakeside, Lakeside
- Lake Station
- lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)
- Lake Tai
- Lake Thun
- lake trout
- Lake Village
- lakeward
- lakish
- Moses Lake
- oxbow lake
- Pine Lake
- Red Lake County
- Red Lake Falls
- Rideau Lakes
- Salt Lake City
- Salt Lake County
- Shell Lake
- Silver Lake
- Spirit Lake
- Storm Lake
- Timber Lake
- Trent Lakes
- Trout Lake
- West Lake
Translations
See also
Further reading
- Astell, Ann W. (1999) Political Allegory in Late Medieval England, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 192.
- Cameron, Kenneth (1961) English Place Names, B. T. Batsford Limited, →ISBN, page 164.
- Ferguson, Robert (1858) English Surnames: And their Place in the Teutonic Family, G. Routledge & Co., page 368.
- Maetzner, Eduard Adolf Ferdinand (2009) An English Grammar; Methodical, Analytical, and Historical, BiblioBazaar, LLC, →ISBN, page 200.
- Rissanen, Matti (1992) History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 513–514.
- Sisam, Kenneth (2009) Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, BiblioBazaar, →ISBN.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lake, lak, lac (also loke, laik, layke), from Old English lāc (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-Germanic *laiką (“play, fight”), *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-, *loig-, *leig- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”). Verb form partly from Middle English laken, from Old English lacan, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. More at lay, -lock.
Noun
lake (plural lakes)
Related terms
Verb
lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)
Etymology 3
From Middle English lake, from Old English *lacen or Middle Dutch laken; both from Proto-Germanic *lakaną (“linen; cloth; sheet”). Cognate with Dutch lake (“linen”), Dutch laken (“linen; bedsheet”), German Laken, Danish lagan, Swedish lakan, Icelandic lak, lakan.
Noun
lake (plural lakes)
Etymology 4
From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa, “one hundred thousand”), referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out. Doublet of lakh.
Noun
lake (plural lakes)
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- For example, the name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)
- To make lake-red.
Anagrams
References
- ^ “lake, n.3.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021.
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “Lagu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
lake
Anagrams
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
Noun
lake
References
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Low German lake
Noun
lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural laker, definite plural lakene)
Etymology 2
Noun
lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural laker, definite plural lakene)
Etymology 3
As for Etymology 1.
Verb
lake
References
- “lake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Low German lake
Noun
lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural lakar, definite plural lakane)
Etymology 2
Noun
lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural lakar, definite plural lakane)
Etymology 3
As for Etymology 1.
Verb
lake
References
- “lake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
lake
- inflection of lak:
Seychellois Creole
Etymology
Noun
lake
References
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Swahili
Adjective
lake
Swedish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Low German lâke (“brine; standing water”), from Old Saxon *laca, from Proto-West Germanic *laku (“steam, pool”).[1][2]
Noun
lake c
Declension
Declension of lake | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lake | laken | lakar | lakarna |
Genitive | lakes | lakens | lakars | lakarnas |
References
Etymology 2
Noun
lake c
Declension
Declension of lake | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lake | laken | lakar | lakarna |
Genitive | lakes | lakens | lakars | lakarnas |
References
- ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “2. lake”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary][3] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, pages 394-395
- ^ “lake”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy][4] (in Swedish), 1937
Anagrams
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/eɪk
- Rhymes:English/eɪk/1 syllable
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- English lemmas
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- English terms with quotations
- English dialectal terms
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- English verbs
- English terms derived from Middle Dutch
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Persian
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English doublets
- en:Landforms
- en:Water
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Mauritian Creole terms derived from French
- Mauritian Creole lemmas
- Mauritian Creole nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Low German
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- nb:Fish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Low German
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- nn:Fish
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian adjective forms
- Seychellois Creole terms derived from French
- Seychellois Creole lemmas
- Seychellois Creole nouns
- Swahili non-lemma forms
- Swahili adjective forms
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms borrowed from Middle Low German
- Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Swedish terms derived from Old Saxon
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- sv:Fish