What does 'trask' mean in Latin?

Answer 1

The word 'trask' exists as a family name. There's some controversy over its meaning and origins. But agreement tends to hover over Norse-Viking origins. It also tends to hover over meaning either the actual bog/marsh/swamp or lake environment; or the dweller of either environment. Therefore, the last name Trask may be rendered into the Latin for the environment, or for the dweller of such an environment. The word in the nominative or subject form for bog, marsh, swamp is palus, and that for lake is lacus. The respective phrases incola in lacuand incola in palude, in the locative case, or case of place, refer to a 'dweller of the lake' and a 'dweller of the bog/marsh/swamp'. Or another possibility is use of either the ablative or genitive case forms of the two words. In the genitive case, the respective terms lacus and paludi mean 'of the lake' and 'of the bog/marsh/swamp'. In the ablative case, the respective terms in lacu and in palude mean 'by means of or with the lake' and 'by means of or with the bog/marsh/swamp'.