Animals, plants & weather

loch

Loch is the Gaelic word for a lake or sea inlet, a distant cousin of Latin lacus and English lake. It came into English through Scots, while the Irish form became Hiberno-English lough, and Manx and Welsh have their own versions.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Proto-Celtic to Welsh

From Old Irish to Irish, English

From Old Irish to Manx

500 BCEProto-Celtic

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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