lagoon
luh-GOON · noun
Origin
Borrowed from French lagune, itself from Italian laguna, which traces back to Latin lacūna. It's also distantly related to Old English lagu through a shared Proto-Indo-European root.
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Related words
It's a doublet of lacuna and lacune, meaning all three English words descend from the same Latin ancestor, lacūna, just by different routes.