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Where does “lacrosse” come from?

Lacrosse comes from French crosse, from Middle French la, from Frankish krukkja, from Latin illa, from Proto-Indo-European h₂el-, grewg-, ger-, and al-.

lacrosse (English): A sport played on a field between two opposing...

Definitions

  1. A sport played on a field between two opposing...

Ancestry of “lacrosse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlacrosselacrosse; Synonym of crosse
2Frenchlàthere; here, present
3Italianlàthere
4Spanishlathe; accusative of ella, ello , and usted ; her,...
5Portugueseláthere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
6GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
7Germana-MollA-minor
8Hungarianathe; this; that
9Frenchàto; on the, to; at
10Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
11Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
12LatinA—
13Etruscan𐌀—
14Ancient Greekᾱ̔—
15Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef
16Egyptian𓃾—

Words derived from “lacrosse”

  • lacrosselike
  • lacrosser
  • lacrosse
  • ラクロス
  • lakros
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