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Lough

//lɑx// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland. Ireland

    "Outside, a freezing wind whips across Belfast lough […]."

  2. 2
    lake, pool Cumbria, Northumbria
  3. 3
    Irish word for a lake wordnet
  4. 4
    a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Irish loch (from Old Irish loch), from Proto-Celtic *loku (“lake, pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“pond, pool”). Doublet of lay, loch, and Looe.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lough, logh, luh, borrowed from Cumbric *luch, derived from Proto-Brythonic *lux, from Proto-Celtic *lokus (“lake, pool”).

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