Etymology of “Laki”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from Old Norse
Source language
Old Norse
Ancestry links
2
Descendants
4
Word Origin Summary
Laki is attested in Old Norse. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Ancestry Chain
Descendants and Related Terms
- lake
Swedish · inherited from
- laukkamakkara
Finnish · derived from
- lake
Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from
- lake
Norwegian Bokmål · derived from
What You Can Explore
- 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
- 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
- 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
- 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root