Skylark combines English sky with English lake, which derives from French laque, Middle Dutch laken, Middle Dutch lac, Sanskrit लाक्षा, and Proto-Indo-European leg-, meaning to gather or collect.
skylark (English): A small brown passerine bird, "Alauda arvensis",...
Definitions
A small brown passerine bird, "Alauda arvensis",...
Ancestry of “skylark”, step by step
skylark traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.