laid

See also: läid

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /leɪd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

VerbEdit

laid

1. simple past tense and past participle of lay

Derived termsEdit

• get laid
• laid rope

AdjectiveEdit

laid (not comparable)

1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

TranslationsEdit

of paper: ribbed with wires

• French: vergé (fr)

• Russian: линованная f (linovannaja), разлинованная f (razlinovannaja)

Derived termsEdit

• creamlaid

StatisticsEdit

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: sound · didn't · natural · #516: laid · cold · led · low

AnagramsEdit

• Dail, Dali, Dial, dial, dial.

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EstonianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *laidō. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.

NounEdit

laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)

1. width (of cloth)
2. plank on the side of a boat
3. side of a boat
4. board, starboard

DeclensionEdit

Declension of laid (type leib)

	singular	plural
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

Declension of laid (type riik)

	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

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)

1. islet, holm

DeclensionEdit

Declension of laid (type riik)

	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

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), 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

• IPA^(key): [lɛ]

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• Homophones: lai, laie, lait

AdjectiveEdit

laid (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. physically ugly
2. morally corrupt

Further readingEdit

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

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Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Old French lait (feminine laide).

AdjectiveEdit

laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. 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.

DescendantsEdit

• French: laid

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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)

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AdjectiveEdit

laid m

1. (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”)

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WelshEdit

NounEdit

laid

1. Soft mutation of llaid.