“lakes” is a form of
lake
/leɪk/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms lakes laking laked laik
- noun A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- noun A large amount of liquid. “a lake of wine”
- noun (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- noun (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
- noun (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
- noun (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- verb (obsolete) To present an offering.
- verb (dialectal, Northern, UK) To leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.
- verb To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.
- noun (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
- noun In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- noun In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors. “The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.”
- verb To make lake-red.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun A unisex given name.
- proper noun A large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5983).
- proper noun A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
Synonyms
Etymology
* Middle English lake (“small stream of running water, pool, lake”), from Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“stream, pool, body of water", originally "a place where water runs off and collects”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”); with
* Middle English lac (“lake”), from Old French lac (“lake, ditch, pit”), a borrowed term, likely from Latin lacus (“lake, tub, vat”) (see Old French lac for more).
The first element is related to Dutch laak (“stream, drainage ditch, pond”), German Low German Lake, Laak (“drainage, marshland”), German Lache (“puddle, pool”), Norwegian løk (“a deep, slow-moving stream; a widening in a stream or river”), Faroese løkur (“small brook”) and lækja (“water hole, well, watershoot in a brook”), Icelandic lækur (“stream”).
Despite their similarity in form and meaning, Old English lacu is not related to English lay (“lake”), Latin lacus (“hollow, lake, pond”), Scottish Gaelic loch (“lake”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, tank, pond, pit”), all from Proto-Indo-European *lókus, *l̥kwés (“lake, pool”).
From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke; Southern loke), from Old English lāc (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-West Germanic *laik, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”), Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), and Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”). Doublet of lek.
Verb form partly from Middle English laken, from Old English lacan, from Proto-Germanic *laikaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. More at lay, -lock.
From Middle English lake, from Old English *lacen or Middle Dutch laken; both from Proto-Germanic *lakaną (“linen; cloth; sheet”). Cognate with Dutch lake (“linen”), Dutch laken (“linen; bedsheet”), German Laken, Danish lagan, Swedish lakan, Icelandic lak, lakan.
From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lac and lacquer.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
- noun A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- verb To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.]
- noun A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
Etymology [F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac.]
Etymology [Cf. G. laken.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “lake”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details