- laku-
- laku-English meaning: water basin (ditch, lake, sea)Deutsche Übersetzung: “Wasseransammlung in einer Grube, Lache, sea”Material: Gk. λάκκος (*λακυ̯ος) “ cistern, pond, pool”; Lat. lacus, -ūs m. (O.H.G. lahha “puddle”, M.L.G. lake “puddle, slop”, O.E. lacu f. “river, stream, brook” etc., are Lat. Lw.) “pit, pothole, sea, trough”, lacūna “Vertiefung, pit, pothole, puddle” (therefrom lacūnar n. “Felderdecke”, as laquear ds. direkt from lacus from); O.Ir. loch n. ‘sea, pond, pool” (*laku), out of it borrowed Welsh llwch, etc.; O.Corn. Bret. lagen ‘sea, pond, pool”; South-East Fr. loye probably from Ven.-Illyr. *loku̯ü; unklares о also in Gaul. PN Penne-locōs (gen. *-ous); O.E. asächs. lagu (*lakú-) ‘sea” (in addition the N.WestGer. FlN Leine from Lagina), O.Ice. lǫgr m. ‘sea, water, Flũssigkeit”; in addition lü, lǣ f. ‘strandwasser, sea” (*lahō), M.H.G. lü ‘stream, brook, Sumpfwasser”; O.Bulg. loky f. (*lakū), gen. -ьve “puddle, cistern “, Serb. lȍkva “puddle, pool, slop”, etc.References: WP. II 380 f., WH. I 748, Trautmann 149.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.