# The meaning of the word Lochting or Lochtink in Dutch or Flemish **lochting*** [garden, yard] {_lochtinc, lochten(e), lochteuine_ [open space or garden near a house] 1272} from _look_ [a plant] + _tuin_ (garden), cf. Old English _lēac-tūn_ [vegetable garden] (cf. _loggia, loge, lobby_). **lochtink** noun: vegetable garden, back garden, garden. Mainly Flemish.  _lochtinc_, _lochtuun_ ‘vegetable garden’, 1396 _lochtinc_, Oudenaarde (Hoebeke 1968), primarily 1562 _lochtinc_ ‘iardin’ (Lambrecht), _lochtinck_ ‘garden’ (Kiliaan). From _lochtuun < looctuun_ ‘vegetable garden’. Cf. Old English. _lêactûn_‘vegetable garden’, older English _leighten_ ‘garden’. Hoebeke 1968, 410-414 could also identify no better explanation than that of C. Vereecken for the time being, but nevertheless has objections on the basis of the old Oudenaarde forms: -1272 _lochtwijn_, 1285 _ieghen den lochtwijn_, 1288 _van .j. lochteuine_, 13th c. _lochtewin_, _±_ 1300 _achter lays lochtuin_, 1320 _den lochtwine, 1355 _van den lochtin_, 1369 _bruuns lochtwin._– Bibl.: C. Tavernier-Vereecken, _De etymologie van lochting (The etymology of ‘lochting’). Med. Ver. Naamk._ 28 (1952), 81-84.