Borrowed fromScottish Gaeliclochan, diminutive ofloch(“lake”).
lochan (plurallochans)
- (Scotland) A smallloch.
2009,John Sadler,Glencoe, Amberley, published2009, page23:The moor is a bare and ancient landscape; the dank mosses studded with a mosaic of tinylochans, stumps of vanished trees, largely devoid of sustenance for man and beast, an almost mythical emptiness where dragons, outlaws and elves might easily be imagined!
2017 February 18, Kari Herbert,The Guardian:The Cairngorms national park has some of Britain’s harshest weather and the heaviest snowfall in Scotland, creating snowfields that stretch to the horizon. Lochs,lochans and waterfalls can be frozen solid.
lochan
- dog
- Čestmír Loukotka, Johannes Wilbert (editor),Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 62
loch(“lake”) +-an; compareIrishlochán
lochan m (genitive singularlochain,plurallochanan)
- diminutive ofloch
- pond
Thuit mo mhac anns anlochan.- My son fell into the pond.
lochan f pl
- plural ofloch
