lakë
Albanian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *laukā, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“clearing”), close to Latin lūcus (“sacred grove”) and Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“clearing, open space”). Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *lakaz (“brook, river, swamp”) (cf. Old High German lahha, Old English lacu).[1]
Noun
lakë f
Related terms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lakë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 211