The word lake comes from Middle English lake (" lake, pond, waterway " ), from Old English lacu (" pond, pool, stream " ), from Proto-Germanic *lakō (" pond, ditch, slow moving stream " ), from the Proto-Indo-European root *leǵ- (" to leak, drain " ). Cognates include Dutch laak (" lake, pond, ditch " ), Middle Low German lāke (" water pooled in a riverbed, puddle " ) as in: :de:Wolfslake, :de:Butterlake, German Lache (" pool, puddle " ), and Icelandic lækur (" slow flowing stream " ). Also related are the English words leak and leach.
The word lake comes from Middle English (' lake, pond, waterway ' ), from Old English (' pond, pool, stream ' ), from Proto-Germanic (' pond, ditch, slow moving stream ' ), from the Proto-Indo-European root (' to leak, drain ' ). Cognates include Dutch (' lake, pond, ditch ' ), Middle Low German (' water pooled in a riverbed, puddle ' ) as in: :de:Wolfslake, :de:Butterlake, German (' pool, puddle ' ), and Icelandic (' slow flowing stream ' ). Also related are the English words leak and leach.
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