lait

• late

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”).

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

1. (ambitransitive, UK 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

• ATLI, Ital, Ital., LIAT, LITA, Lita, TILA, Ta-li, Tail, Tila, alit, alti, ital, ital., tail, tali

lait (plural lait dem, quantified lait)

1. light

• (Rémois) lat
• (Langrois) vate

Inherited from Old French lait, from Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ/

lait m (plural laits)

1. (Troyen, Langrois) milk

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑi̯t/, [ˈlɑ̝i̯t̪]
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.it/, [ˈlɑ̝.it̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑit, -ɑ.it
• Syllabification^(key): lait, la‧it
• Hyphenation^(key): lait, la‧it

lait

1. nominative plural of laki

• Ilta, ilta, lati, liat, tali, tila

Inherited from Old French lait, from Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare Occitan lach, lait.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ/, /le/

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• Homophones: lai, laid, laids, laie, laient, laies, lais, laits (general), lé, les, lés (e/ɛ-merger), legs (dated)
• Rhymes: -e

lait m (countable and uncountable, plural laits)

1. (uncountable) milk
2. (countable, informal) an individual serving of milk
3. (uncountable, slang) milk, semen

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

• “lait”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• a-t-il
• liât

lait

1. to be free

• Singh, U Nissor (1906), Khasi-English dictionary‎^[3], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 109. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

lait

1. alternative form of leyt

From Old French lait, from Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare French lait.

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lait m (plural laits)

1. milk

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lait m (plural laits)

1. alternative form of lach

• leid, led

• IPA^(key): (early) /lajt/, (later) /lɛjt/

From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.

lait oblique singular, 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 ⇒ laiteron
  • Haitian Creole: lèt
• Norman: lait
• ⇒ Walloon: laecea

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

lait m (oblique and nominative feminine singular laide)

2. ugly
3. horrific; awful; terrible

• Middle French: laid
  • French: laid
• Norman: laid (Jèrriais)
• Picard: léd (Athois), laizou (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: léd (Charleroi), laîd (Forrières), lêd (Liégeois)
• → Italian: laido
• → Old Spanish: laido
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: laido
  • Galician: laido
• → Sicilian: làitu, ladiu

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

1. ugliness

See laire

lait

1. third-person singular present indicative of laire

• IPA^(key): /la.ˈit/, [la.ˈit]

lait

1. rope; cord

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlaʔit/ [ˈlaː.ʔɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aʔit
• Syllabification: la‧it

lait (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜁᜆ᜔)

1. revilement; derision; vilification

   Synonyms: mura, pagmura, alimura, pag-alimura, pagdusta, pandurusta

2. blasphemy

   Synonyms: paglapastangan, pagwawalang-pakundangan

• ilat, tali, tila, alit, lati

From English light.

lait

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

     Na God i tok olsem, “Lait i mas kamap.” Orait lait i kamap.

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lait

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

     God i rausim pinis man na meri, na em i makim ol strongpela ensel bilong sanap na was i stap long hap sankamap bilong gaden Iden. Na tu em i putim wanpela bainat i gat paia i lait long en na i save tanim tanim long olgeta hap. Oltaim ol dispela ensel wantaim dispela bainat i save was i stap, nogut wanpela man i go klostu long dispela diwai bilong givim laip.

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• tulait