laak.
pond, pool, lake
Meaning & usage
pond, pool, lake
watercourse, stream
a drainage ditch
border, limit; frontier
marshland
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch lake, from Old Dutch *laca, from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“drain, ditch, stream, pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak, drain”).
leech
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch lāke, lieke, leke (“blood sucking worm”), from a root shared with Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz. Cognate with English leech.
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