lough

Meaning

Noun

• A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland.
• lake, pool

Related

Similar words

• loch

Origin

• (from Old Irish loch), from Proto-Celtic *lokus ("lake, pool"), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus ("pond, pool"). .
• From Middle English lough, luh, borrowed from Cumbric *luch, derived from Proto-Brythonic *luch, from Proto-Celtic *lokus ("lake, pool").