Laken

laken English Proper noun en female. en Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez Congress passes immigrant detention bill in first legislative win for Trump w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/laken-riley-act-house-immigrant-detention-vote/index.html 2025-01-22 The legislation is named after Laken Riley, a 22-year old Georgia student who was killed last year while out for a run. An undocumented migrant from Venezuela was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in the case that reignited a national debate over immigration and crime. https://web.archive.org/web/20260329060025/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/laken-riley-act-house-immigrant-detention-vote/index.html 29 March 2026 Dutch Etymology The name is of nl gem - origin, from nl gmw-pro *laku stream, lake, pool (compare de Lache), referring to the en Molenbeek stream.Martine Wille et Jean-marie Duvosquel (dir.), Autour du parvis Notre-Dame à Laeken, Crédit Communal, 1994, p. 5Jean-Jacques Jespers, Dictionnaire des noms de lieux en Wallonie et à Bruxelles, 2005, p. 387. Proper noun a Belgian municipality, near Brussels, site of the largest royal palace estate References German Pronunciation de /ˈlaːkən/ [ˈlaːkən] [ˈlaːkŋ̩] de De-Laken.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Laken2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Etymology 1 de gml lāken, from de osx lakan, from de gem-pro *lakaną sheet, cloth. The High German cognate gmh lachen, from goh lahhan, had already been declining in use when the form Laken was introduced during the pre-eminence of the Dutch and Northern German cloth industry (14th/15th centuries). Cognate with nl laken. Noun n sheet; bed sheet linen used to cover mattresses or furniture, or sometimes instead of a blanket de rare other kinds of linens or large cloths Declension n Synonyms sheet de Bettlaken, de Betttuch linen de Tuch Hyponyms sheet de Baumwolllaken, de Leinenlaken See also de Decke Etymology 2 Noun de noun form de Lake Further reading de Bedding