laache

From Middle High German lachen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːxə/

laache (third-person present tense laach or laacht, past participle jelaach or gelaacht)

1. (most dialects) to laugh
   • 1976, “Ming eetste Fründin”‎^[1]performed by Bläck Fööss:

     Ming eetste Fründin, dat wor et Meiers Kättche,
     Un ich fuhr mem Rädche Daach für Daach zo im.
     Et Meiers Kättche fuhr dann met om Rädche,
     Un dann dät et laache su wie ne Sonnesching.

     My first girlfriend was Cathy Meier,
     And I rode my bike to her place day by day.
     Then Cathy Meier rode with me on my bike,
     And she used to laugh just like the sunshine.

From Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.xə/
• Rhymes: -aːxə

laache (third-person singular present laacht, past participle gelaacht, auxiliary verb haane) (Eupen)

1. (intransitive) to laugh

• laake (Halligen)
• loache (Heligoland)
• lååke (Mooring)
• lachi (Sylt)

From Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, either through an unrecorded Old Frisian form or otherwise via Middle Low German lachen. The usual Old Frisian verb was hlakkia, from Proto-Germanic *hlakkōną, which is continued in Mainland North Frisian lååke and West Frisian laitsje. The Insular North Frisian form corresponds to Saterland Frisian laachje.

• (Föhr-Amrum) IPA^(key): [ˈlaːxə]

laache

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to laugh