laid
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
laid
- simple past tense and past participle of lay
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
laid (not comparable)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
EstonianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Germanic *laidō. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.
NounEdit
laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | laid | laiad |
genitive | laia | laidade |
partitive | laida | laidu / laidasid |
illative | laida / laiasse | laidadesse / laiusse |
inessive | laias | laidades |
elative | laiast | laidadest |
allative | laiale | laidadele |
adessive | laial | laidadel |
ablative | laialt | laidadelt |
translative | laiaks | laidadeks |
terminative | laiani | laidadeni |
essive | laiana | laidadena |
abessive | laiata | laidadeta |
comitative | laiaga | laidadega |
singular | plural | |
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nominative | laid | laiud |
genitive | laiu | laidude |
partitive | laidu | laide / laidusid |
illative | laidu / laiusse | laidudesse |
inessive | laius | laidudes |
elative | laiust | laidudest |
allative | laiule | laidudele |
adessive | laiul | laidudel |
ablative | laiult | laidudelt |
translative | laiuks | laidudeks |
terminative | laiuni | laidudeni |
essive | laiuna | laidudena |
abessive | laiuta | laidudeta |
comitative | laiuga | laidudega |
Etymology 2Edit
Possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laidō.
NounEdit
laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | laid | laiud |
genitive | laiu | laidude |
partitive | laidu | laide / laidusid |
illative | laidu / laiusse | laidudesse |
inessive | laius | laidudes |
elative | laiust | laidudest |
allative | laiule | laidudele |
adessive | laiul | laidudel |
ablative | laiult | laidudelt |
translative | laiuks | laidudeks |
terminative | laiuni | laidudeni |
essive | laiuna | laidudena |
abessive | laiuta | laidudeta |
comitative | laiuga | laidudega |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laith (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”). More at loath.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
laid (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
Further readingEdit
- “laid” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Old French lait (feminine laide).
AdjectiveEdit
laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
- ugly
- 1546, Philippe de Commine, Cronique et histoire faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Commines ... Contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz, tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres, Arthois, Angleterre, & Italie, que Espaigne & lieux circonuoysins, page 43
- Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.
- The king of Castille was ugly, and his clothing unpleasant to the French, who made fun of it.
- Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.
- 1546, Philippe de Commine, Cronique et histoire faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Commines ... Contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz, tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres, Arthois, Angleterre, & Italie, que Espaigne & lieux circonuoysins, page 43
DescendantsEdit
- French: laid
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
AdjectiveEdit
laid m
- (Jersey) ugly
- Bouonne femme n'est janmais laie. ― A nice woman is never ugly.
- Janmais vaque n'a trouvé san vieau laid. ― A cow never found her calf ugly.
Derived termsEdit
- laid coumme lé péché du Dînmanche (“ugly as sin”, literally “ugly as a Sunday sin”)
- laidi (“become ugly, turn ugly”)
- s'laidi (“get ugly, turn ugly”)
- laiduthe, laideune (“ugly character, good-for-nothing”)