KRONE, KRON (Teut. and Scand.),
a crown; e.g. Kronstadt, Hung. Brasso (crown city), in Hungary; Cronstadt, in Russia, founded by Peter the Great; Königscrone (the king’s crown); Carlscrone (Charles’s crown); Landscrone (the crown or summit of the land), a mountain and town in Silesia—also with the same meaning, Landscrona, in Sweden. Kron, however, as a prefix, comes occasionally from krahn (a crane), as in Kronwinkel (the crane’s corner).
KRUG (Ger.),
a small inn; e.g. Dornkrug (the thorn inn); Krugmülle (the mill at the inn).
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LAAG, LAGE (Ger.),
LOOG (Dutch),
a site, a low-lying field; e.g. Brawenlage (brown field); Wittlage (white field or wood field); Blumlage (flowery field); Mühlenloog (the mill field or site); Dinkellage (wheat field). This word is also used as an adjective, signifying low; e.g. Loogkirk (low church); Loogheyde (low heath); Loogemeer (low lake); Laaland (low island).
LAC (Fr.),
LACHE (Ger.),
LAGO (It., Span., and Port.),
LAGUNA,
a lake, cognate with the Lat. lacus and the Cel. loch or lwch. These words in the various dialects originally signified a hollow, from the roots lag, lug, and Grk. lakos; e.g. Lachen, Lat. Adlacum (at the lake), a town on Lake Zurich; Interlachen (between the lakes), in Switzerland; Biberlachen (beaver lake); Lago Maggiore (the greater lake), with reference to Lake Lugano, which itself means simply the lake or hollow; Lago Nuovo (new lake), in Tyrol,—it was formed a few years ago by a landslip; Lagoa (on a lake or marsh), in Brazil; Lagow (on a lake), in Prussia; Lagos, in Portugal (on a large bay or lake); Laguna-de-Negrillos (the lake of the elms) and Laguna-Encinillos (of the evergreen oaks), in Spain; Laach, in the Rhine Provinces (situated on a lake), the crater of an extinct volcano; Anderlecht or Anderlac (at the lake or marsh), in Belgium; Chablais, Lat. Caput-lacensis (at the head of the lake, i.e. of Geneva); Missolonghi, i.e. Mezzo-laguno (in the midst of a marshy lagoon); Beverley, in Yorkshire, anc. Biberlac (the beaver lake or marsh); Lago-dos-Patos (the lake of geese), in Brazil; Niederhaslach and Oberhaslach (lower and upper lake), in Bas Rhin; Lake Champlain takes its name from a Norman adventurer, Governor-general of Canada, in the seventeenth century; Alagoas (abounding in lakes), a province in Brazil, with its capital of the same name; Filey, in Yorkshire, in Doomsday Fuielac (i.e. bird lake, fugæ).
LAD (Scand.),