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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.com> wrote:

>J. Kanze wrote:
>> 
>> Yes.  In the case of coastal "etang", I would probably use the word
>> lagune in English, but certainly not pond.  I've always associated the
>> word with stagner (English stagnate), which would associate it with
>> water that wasn't moving: a pond as opposed to a river, but a lagune as
>> opposed to a sea with tides (except that the Mediteranean doesn't have
>> tides, at least to speak of).
>> 
>
>In English it's "lagoon", borrowed from French or Italian in the later 
>17th century (first attestation 1673). It's curious that the spelling 
>didn't come in with the word. Is there maybe something Celtic it got 
>attracted to?

Might it be an incorrect analogy with "balloon", "saloon", "doubloon"?

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