lagu – Old English noun declension

Noun: lagu
Gender: m f

Nominative

Singular	lagu
Plural	laga; lage

Genitive

Singular	laga; lage
Plural	laga

Dative

Singular	laga; lage
Plural	lagum

Accusative

Singular	lagu; lage
Plural	laga; lage

Sample Sentences

Ne biþ him tō hearpan hyġe, ne tō hringþege, ne tō wīfe wyn, ne tō worulde hyht, ne ymbe ōwiht elles, nefne ymb ȳða ġewealc, ac ā hafað longunge sē þe on lagu fundað. (His mind is not for a harp, nor for a gift of ring, nor for a wife’s mirth, nor for world’s hope, nor about anything else, unless about the rolling of waves, but he always has a longing, the one who rushes onto the sea.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]
The Old English rune poem
ᛚ byþ lēodum langsum ġeþūht... (Sea is by princes thought long-enduring...)

Nouns inflected like lagu

lagu,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“pond, pool”). Cognate with Latin lacus (“hollow, pond”), Old Irish loch (“lake, pond”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, pond, pit”). See: Latin Nouns 'lacus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'λάκκος'.

Verbs referencing "lagu"

English Nouns law, Irish Nouns loch, English Nouns lagoon, Latin Nouns lacus, English Nouns lawe, Middle English Nouns lawe, Ancient Greek Nouns λάκκος, Icelandic Nouns lögur, Old English Nouns utlaga.