lait

From Middle English leyt, layt, leit, lait, from Old English līġet, līġetu, līeġet (“lightning, flash of lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *laugiþō (“lightning”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“to shine”). Related to Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). Compare also Old High German laugazan, lōhazan (“to be red, shine, sparkle”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lauhatjan, “to lighten”). More at lowe, light.

lait (plural laits)

1. (obsolete) Lightning; flash of lightning; a flash.

From Middle English laiten, leiten, from Old Norse leita (“to seek, search, inquire”), from Proto-Germanic *wlaitōną (“to look out, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk leita (“to search”), Icelandic leita (“to search”), Swedish leta (“to search, hunt, forage”), Old English wlātian (“to gaze, observe, look upon, behold”).

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lait (third-person singular simple present laits, present participle laiting, simple past and past participle laited)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal, obsolete) To seek; search for; inquire.
   • 1862, Song of Solomon, in Twenty-four English Dialects, page 282 (Westmorland dialect):

     By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.

   • 1877, John Frances, quoting a girl from the moorlands of Yorkshire, Notes and queries , page 10:

     The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had "laited a long time for the children, but could not find them," evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?

• laitand

• Ital, LIAT, Tail, alit, ital, lati, tail, tali

lait f

1. slope

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

lait

1. Nominative plural form of laki.

• Ilta, ilta, lati, liat, tali, tila

From Old French lait, from Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare Catalan llet, Friulian lat, Italian latte, Portuguese leite, Romanian lapte, Spanish leche, Walloon laecea.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ/

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• Homophones: lai, laits, lais

lait m (plural laits)

1. milk

• lact-, lacto-
• lacté
• laiteux
• laitier
• laitue

• “lait” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• a-t-il
• liât

lait

1. Alternative form of leyt

From Old French lait, from Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts (“milk”).

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lait m (plural laits)

1. milk

lait m (plural laits)

1. Alternative form of lach

• leid, led

From Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter).

lait m (oblique plural laiz or laitz, nominative singular laiz or laitz, nominative plural lait)

1. milk (white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals)

• French: lait
• Norman: lait

Thought to be of Germanic origin; see Modern French laid.

lait m (oblique and nominative feminine singular laide)

1. ugly
2. horrific; awful; terrible

• Middle French: laid
  • French: laid
• Norman: laid (Jèrriais)
• Walloon: laid, lêd
• → Italian: laido
• → Old Spanish: laido
• → Old Portuguese: laido
  • Galician: laido

lait m (nominative singular laiz or laitz)

1. ugliness

See laire

lait

1. third-person singular present indicative of laire

From Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter).

lait m

1. milk

From English light.

lait

1. light
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:3:

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lait

1. bright
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:24:

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• tulait