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lakeward en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English lake Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English lakeward From lake + -ward.

Meanings

(not-comparable) Located, facing or moving toward a lake.
- McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice. 1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales:
- The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions. 1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time, Privately printed, page 11:

lakeward en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English lake Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English lakeward From lake + -ward.

Meanings

(not-comparable) Toward a lake.
- The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun. 2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily Telegraph:
- Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents. 1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway: