lask
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɑːsk/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /læsk/
- Rhymes: -æsk, -ɑːsk
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English lasken (“to diminish, weaken (the blood or other body fluids, body tissues, etc.); to thin (the blood through bloodletting); to alleviate (pain, sickness); to grow weak; to shorten (one’s life)”) [and other forms],[1] from Old Northern French *lasquer, Old French lascher, laschier (“to let go of, release; to loosen, relax”) (modern French lâcher (“to let go of, release; to loosen”)), from Vulgar Latin *lascāre, *lassicāre, from Latin *laxicāre, the frequentative of Latin laxāre, the present active infinitive of laxō (“to relax, weaken; to release, undo; to make wide, open”), from laxus (“free, loose, slack; roomy, spacious, wide”),[2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g- (“faint; weak”).
Verb edit
lask (third-person singular simple present lasks, present participle lasking, simple past and past participle lasked)
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English laske (“lax, weak; of the bowels: loose”),[3] from Old Northern French *lasque, Old French laske, lasche (“not taut or tight, limp”) (modern French lâche (“loose, slack”)),[4] from Old French lascher, laschier (“to let go of, release; to loosen, relax”): see further at etymology 1.
Adjective edit
lask (comparative more lask, superlative most lask)
Etymology 3 edit
From the adjective: see etymology 2.[5]
Noun edit
lask (countable and uncountable, plural lasks)
- (uncountable, chiefly veterinary medicine) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.
- 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79:
- Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Shame and Disgrace, Causes”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 6, page 88:
- A graue & learned Miniſter, and an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland, was one day (as hee was walking in the fields for his recreation) ſuddenly taken with a laske or looſeneſſe, and therevpon compelled to retire to the next ditch; but being ſurpriſed at vnawares, by ſome Gentlewomen of his Pariſh wandering that way; was ſo abaſhed, that hee did neuer after ſhew his head in publike, or come into the Pulpit, but pined away with melancholy: […]
- 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Hemp”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, page 64, column 1:
- The Emulſion or Decoction of the Seed ſtaieth Lasks and continual Fluxes, eaſeth the Chollick, and allayeth the troubleſom Humors in the Bowels, […]
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- ^ “lasken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “lask, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021.
- ^ “laske, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “† lask, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
- ^ “lask, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lask (genitive lasu, partitive lasku)
Declension edit
Declension of lask (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-ø gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | lask | lasud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | lasu | ||
genitive | laskude | ||
partitive | lasku | laske laskusid | |
illative | lasku lasusse |
laskudesse lasesse | |
inessive | lasus | laskudes lases | |
elative | lasust | laskudest lasest | |
allative | lasule | laskudele lasele | |
adessive | lasul | laskudel lasel | |
ablative | lasult | laskudelt laselt | |
translative | lasuks | laskudeks laseks | |
terminative | lasuni | laskudeni | |
essive | lasuna | laskudena | |
abessive | lasuta | laskudeta | |
comitative | lasuga | laskudega |
Compounds edit
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Livonian edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Courland) laskõ
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *laskëdak.
Verb edit
lask