Where does “lake” come from?
lake (Seychellois Creole) comes from French queue, from Middle French queu, from Old French cue, from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, from Proto-Italic kaudā, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂udeh₂.
lake (Seychellois Creole): tail; queue
Ancestry of “lake”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | queue | tail; queue, line; cue |
| 2 | Middle French | queu | — |
| 3 | Old French | cue | tail |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | coda | tail |
| 5 | Latin | cauda | A tail |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kaudā | tail |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂udeh₂ | — |