laid
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
laid
- simple past and past participle of lay
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Adjective edit
laid (not comparable)
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Estonian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Finnic *laita, from Proto-Germanic *laidō. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.
Noun edit
laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)
Declension edit
Declension of laid (ÕS type 22u/leib, d-ø gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | laid | laiad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | laia | ||
genitive | laidade | ||
partitive | laida | laidu laidasid | |
illative | laida laiasse |
laidadesse laiusse | |
inessive | laias | laidades laius | |
elative | laiast | laidadest laiust | |
allative | laiale | laidadele laiule | |
adessive | laial | laidadel laiul | |
ablative | laialt | laidadelt laiult | |
translative | laiaks | laidadeks laiuks | |
terminative | laiani | laidadeni | |
essive | laiana | laidadena | |
abessive | laiata | laidadeta | |
comitative | laiaga | laidadega |
Declension of laid (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | laid | laiud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | laiu | ||
genitive | laidude | ||
partitive | laidu | laide laidusid | |
illative | laidu laiusse |
laidudesse laiesse | |
inessive | laius | laidudes laies | |
elative | laiust | laidudest laiest | |
allative | laiule | laidudele laiele | |
adessive | laiul | laidudel laiel | |
ablative | laiult | laidudelt laielt | |
translative | laiuks | laidudeks laieks | |
terminative | laiuni | laidudeni | |
essive | laiuna | laidudena | |
abessive | laiuta | laidudeta | |
comitative | laiuga | laidudega |
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Finnic *laito, possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laidō.
Noun edit
laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)
Declension edit
Declension of laid (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | laid | laiud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | laiu | ||
genitive | laidude | ||
partitive | laidu | laide laidusid | |
illative | laidu laiusse |
laidudesse laiesse | |
inessive | laius | laidudes laies | |
elative | laiust | laidudest laiest | |
allative | laiule | laidudele laiele | |
adessive | laiul | laidudel laiel | |
ablative | laiult | laidudelt laielt | |
translative | laiuks | laidudeks laieks | |
terminative | laiuni | laidudeni | |
essive | laiuna | laidudena | |
abessive | laiuta | laidudeta | |
comitative | laiuga | laidudega |
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“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”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Occitan lag (“ugly”). More at loath.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
laid (feminine laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
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Further reading edit
- “laid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Old French lait (feminine laide).
Adjective edit
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.
Descendants edit
- French: laid
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Adjective edit
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 terms edit
- 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”)
Welsh edit
Noun edit
laid
- Soft mutation of llaid.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
llaid | laid | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |