lagan

• lagen, lagend, lagon, ligan, ligen, logan

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæɡən/

lagan (uncountable)

1. (law) Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 6, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 129:

     The country folk, who were prowling about the shore after the waifs of the storm, deserted jetsom and lagend, and crowded to meet the richer prize.

   • 2015, Anne Harris, "Oceanic Valuation", in Oceanic New York, Punctum Books, page 163:

     "Lagan" was a word already in use, recorded as early as 1200, from a Scandinavian word family for things that lie deep. It is recorded again in 1531 to signify cargo that has sunk and lies on the bottom of the ocean, but might yet be reclaimed.

   • 2022, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, Spirit Things, London: University Press of Colorado, pages 101-112:

     Lagan are those things that are intentionally jettisoned, as well, but which sink below the surface, possibly marked by a buoy or a line.

• flotsam
• jetsam
• derelict
• salvage
• waveson

• Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, Paris, 1881-1902
• Bryan A. Garner, editor (2015), Black's Law Dictionary, tenth abridged edition, Thomson Reuters, →ISBN

• Galan, Ngala, alang

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lagan f (plural lagans)

1. lagan

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

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

lȁgan (Cyrillic spelling ла̏ган, definite lȁganī, comparative lagànijī, derived adverb lȁgano)

1. light

   Antonym: téžak

2. easy (of a task)

   Antonym: téžak

3. (figuratively) slow

• lȁk

• “lagan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024