Where does “lac” come from?
lac (Middle Dutch) comes 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, from Proto-Hellenic *dlukús.
lac (Middle Dutch): deficiency
Ancestry of “lac”, step by step