læccan

From Proto-West Germanic *lakkjan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną (“to grasp, seize”), evidently only attested in Old English, from Proto-Indo-European *lh₂g-ie-, which could be an isogloss shared with Ancient Greek λάζομαι (lázomai, “I seize, grasp”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæt.t͡ʃɑn/

læċċan

1. to grab (sometimes violently: snatch, catch, apprehend)

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• ġelæċċan

• Middle English: lacchen
  • English: latch

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “læccan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.