lagan

See also: lågan and Lagan

English

Etymology

Per Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (law of the sea), from Old Norse lag (law) and Latin maris (of the sea)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlæɡən/

Noun

lagan (uncountable)

  1. (law) Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.

See also

References

Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, Paris, 1881-1902

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French

Noun

lagan f (plural lagans)

  1. lagan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьgъkъ, *lьgъnъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lâɡan/
  • Hyphenation: la‧gan

Adjective

lȁgan (definite lȁganī, comparative lagànijī, Cyrillic spelling ла̏ган)

  1. light
  2. easy (of a task)
  3. (figuratively) slow

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