lake

lake
\ \ English has two words lake. The one meaning ‘body of water’ [13] comes via Old French lac from Latin lacus. This goes back to the same prehistoric source as produced Gaelic loch (acquired by English in the 14th century) and Latin lacūnahole, pit, pool’ (from which English got lacuna [17] and, via Italian or Spanish, lagoon [17]); this seems to have denoted ‘hole, basin’, the notion of ‘water-filled hole’ being a secondary development. Lake the colour [17], now usually encountered only in crimson lake, is a variant of lac, a term for a reddish resin or dye that comes via Dutch or French from Hindi lākh, and forms the second syllable of English shellac. Its ultimate source is Sanskrit lākshā. Lacquer [16] comes via early modern French lacresealingwax’ from laca, the Portuguese version of lac.
\ \ Cf.LACUNA, LAGOON; LACQUER, SHELLAC

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