See also: laps', läpš, and łaps

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laps

  1. plural of lap

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laps

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lap

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Albanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lapis.

Noun edit

laps m (plural lapsa, definite lapsi, definite plural lapsat)

  1. pencil
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Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Albanian *lapitja, close to Greek λαπαρός (laparós, weak), λαπάζω (lapázo, to weaken).[1]

Verb edit

laps (aorist lapsa, participle lapsur)

  1. to wear out, tire

Etymology 3 edit

From Proto-Albanian *laubitja, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, related to Sanskrit लुभ्यति (lúbhyati, to wish), Proto-Slavic *l'ubiti (to love).[2] Ultimately a doublet of lyp.

Verb edit

laps (aorist lapsa, participle lapsur)

  1. to wish, want

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “laps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “laps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191

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laps c (singular definite lapsen, plural indefinite lapse)

  1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
  2. a shabby man [from 1990]

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Estonian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognate with Finnish lapsi.

Noun edit

laps (genitive lapse, partitive last)

  1. child
  2. someone's child

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Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (fall). Doublet of lapsus.

Noun edit

laps m (plural laps)

  1. lapse, length (of time)
    un laps de vingt secondesa period of twenty seconds
    un laps de quelques heuresa period of a few hours
    un laps de plusieurs moisa period of several months
    • 2007, Joseph Combet, Histoire de la ville et du canton d'Uzerche, page 128:
      [] mais enfin, en payant ces charges et ces rentes, les personnes en faveur desquelles furent faites les concessions, devinrent propriétaires et seigneurs utils. Ainsi s’évanouirent, après un laps d’environ quatre siècles et demi, les menaces et les imprécations fulminées par l’évêque []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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  • Almost always followed by a complement centered on the concept of time, as in the phrase laps de temps (a period of time), or units of time like jours (days) or années (years).
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Etymology 2 edit

From Latin lapsus (fallen).

Adjective edit

laps (invariable)

  1. (archaic) apostate of Catholicism
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognates include Finnish lapsi and Estonian laps.

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Noun edit

laps

  1. child
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 34:
      Keitettii se lapsille.
      The children stewed it.
    • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:
      Minen peräst oppii männöö
      nyt näin paljo lapsia ?
      Why do now so many
      children go to school?

Declension edit

Declension of laps (type 5/keeli, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative laps lapset
genitive lapsen lapsiin, lapsiloin
partitive lasta, last lapsia, lapsiloja
illative lapsee lapsii, lapsiloihe
inessive lapsees lapsiis, lapsilois
elative lapsest lapsist, lapsiloist
allative lapselle lapsille, lapsiloille
adessive lapseel lapsiil, lapsiloil
ablative lapselt lapsilt, lapsiloilt
translative lapseks lapsiks, lapsiloiks
essive lapsenna, lapseen lapsinna, lapsiloinna, lapsiin, lapsiloin
exessive1) lapsent lapsint, lapsiloint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

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References edit

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 249

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Noun edit

laps m (definite singular lapsen, indefinite plural lapser, definite plural lapsene)

  1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)

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