laak

See also: Laak

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lake, from Old Dutch *laka, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“drain, ditch, stream, pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak, drain”).

Noun

laak f (plural laken, diminutive laakje n)

  1. (obsolete) pond, pool, lake
  2. watercourse, stream
  3. A drainage ditch.
  4. border, limit; frontier
  5. marshland

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lāke (“blood sucking worm”), lieke, leke, from a root shared with Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz. Cognate with English leech.

Noun

laak f (plural laken)

  1. (dated) leech

Etymology 3

Verb

laak

  1. first-person singular present indicative of laken
  2. imperative of laken

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