different between lagan vs jetsam

English

Etymology

Per Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (“law of the sea”), from Old Norse lag (“law”) and Latin maris (“of the sea”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læ??n/

Noun

lagan (uncountable)

1. (law) Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.

See also

• flotsam
• jetsam
• derelict
• salvage

References

Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, Paris, 1881-1902

Anagrams

• Galan, Ngala, alang

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?g?k?, *l?g?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?leng??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâ?an/
• Hyphenation: la?gan

Adjective

l?gan (definite l?gan?, comparative lagànij?, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. light
2. easy (of a task)
3. (figuratively) slow

Declension

Derived terms

• l?gano

Related terms

• l?k

Antonyms

• težak

English

Etymology

From Middle English jetteson, from Anglo-Norman getteson. Doublet of jettison

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???ts?m/
• Hyphenation: jet?sam

Noun

jetsam (countable and uncountable, plural jetsams)

1. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress

   There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.

2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends

   They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.

Derived terms

• flotsam and jetsam

Translations

See also

• jetsam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flotsam
• flotsam and jetsam
• lagan
• derelict
• salvage

Anagrams

• matjes