laîche

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See also: laiche, Laiche, and láiche

French

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laîche

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French laische, from Old French lesche (“sedge”), from Frankish *lisca, *liska (“sedge”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *hlisku, *hlisiku, *hlusiku (“sedge”), a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *hlus (“reed, sedge”). The ultimate origin could be:.

speculated ultimate origins

Borrowed from Romance/Medieval Latin lisca, though the reverse is also possible; this could be from Vulgar Latin *alisca, from Latin arista (“(ear of) corn, grain, awn”).^[1]
From Proto-Indo-European *leu, related to Lithuanian laure (“dirty person”),^[2]^[3] referring to the mud it grows in.
From a pre-Germanic/pre-Roman substrate language.^[4]^[5]

Cognate with Old High German liska, lisca ( > Modern German Liesch (“sedge”)), Old Saxon hlus (“rush, reed”), Middle Dutch lies, liesc (“sedge”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɛʃ/
Audio: (file)

Noun

laîche f (plural laîches)

sedge (any plant of the genus Carex)

References

^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “lisca”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lerë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 219
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “681”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 681
^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “lis1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
^ “laîche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

“laîche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

chiale, chialé, léchai

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