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Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up thelake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
As with the names ofrivers,mounts andmountains, the names of lakes are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term:Lake Titicaca orGreat Slave Lake. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives seelake added to the end, as withReindeer Lake;lake is usually added before proper names, as withLake Michigan. This derives from the earlier but now uncommon formlake of ~: for instance, the 19th-centuryLake of Annecy is now usually simplyLake Annecy. It frequently occurs, however, that foreign placenames are misunderstood as proper nouns, as with the ChineseTaihu(“Great Lake”) andQinghai(“Blue Sea”) being frequently rendered asLake Tai andQinghai Lake.
FromFrenchlaque(“lacquer”), fromPersianلاک(lâk), fromHindiलाख(lākh), fromSanskritलक्ष(lakṣa,“one hundred thousand”), referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out.Doublet oflakh.
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.
For example, the name of alake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--AluminumLake.
^Hellquist, Elof (1922), “1. lake”, inSvensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary][1] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag,page394
^“lake”, inSvenska Akademiens ordbok[Dictionary of the Swedish Academy][2] (in Swedish),1937
^Hellquist, Elof (1922), “2. lake”, inSvensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary][3] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag,pages394-395
^“lake”, inSvenska Akademiens ordbok[Dictionary of the Swedish Academy][4] (in Swedish),1937
