lavy

lavy · adjective¹

From lave (“to pour out, lavish”) + -y.

lavy · noun²

1. Old Norse · derived fromtangvé
2. Irish · borrowed fromlamhaidh
3. English todaylavy

From Irish lamhaidh, from Old Norse tangvé, langvé. Cognate with Icelandic langvía, lómvia, Faroese lomvigi, Norwegian langve, lomvi. Compare also French lare (“seagull”).