Where does “lâc” come from?
lâc (Friulian) comes from Latin lacus, from New Latin lacrimalis, from Latin lācrima, from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Italic *d(r)(k)akrunā, from Proto-Indo-European dáḱru-, from Proto-Indo-European dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- — eye bitter.
lâc (Friulian): lake
Ancestry of “lâc”, step by step