læcan
Læcan is a term that appears in a limited set of medieval and linguistic sources within the Germanic language family. The spelling, using the ash character, signals Old English or closely related orthography. In surviving texts, læcan does not have a single, universally agreed meaning, and it is not treated as a standard lemma in modern dictionaries.
Scholars have proposed several senses for læcan, most commonly linked to lying in the sense of reclining
Etiology and classification: the term is considered part of the broader study of Germanic verb systems that
See also: Lie (to recline) and Lie (to tell a falsehood); Lay; Old English language; Old Norse