Where does “lāken” come from?
lāken (Middle Dutch) comes from Middle Dutch lac, from Old Dutch laka, from Proto-West Germanic laku, from Finnish lakritsi, from Swedish lakrits, from Late Latin liquiritia, from Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα, from Ancient Greek γλυκύς.
Ancestry of “lāken”, step by step
Words derived from “lāken”