lait

See also: làit, läit, and Lait

English

Alternative forms

• late

Etymology

From Middle English laiten, leiten, from Old Norse leita (“to seek, search, inquire”), from Proto-Germanic *wlaitōną (“to look out, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk leita (“to search”), Icelandic leita (“to search”), Swedish leta (“to search, hunt, forage”), Old English wlātian (“to gaze, observe, look upon, behold”).

Verb

lait (third-person singular simple present laits, present participle laiting, simple past and past participle laited)

1. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To seek; search for; inquire.
   • 1862, Song of Solomon, in Twenty-four English Dialects, page 282 (Westmorland dialect):

     By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.

   • 1877, John Frances, quoting a girl from the moorlands of Yorkshire, Notes and queries, page 10:

     The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had "laited a long time for the children, but could not find them," evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?

Derived terms

• laitand

See also

• café au lait
• sac-a-lait

 

Anagrams

• ATLI, Ital, Ital., LIAT, LITA, Lita, TILA, Ta-li, Tail, Tila, alit, alti, ital, ital., tail, tali

Cimbrian

Noun

lait f

1. slope

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

Noun

lait

1. nominative plural of laki

Anagrams

• Ilta, ilta, lati, liat, tali, tila

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French lait, from Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare Occitan lach, lait.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ/, /le/

• (file)

• Homophones: lai, laid, laids, laie, laient, laies, lais, laits (general), lé, les, lés (e/ɛ-merger), legs (dated)
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

lait m (countable and uncountable, plural laits)

1. (uncountable) milk
2. (countable, informal) an individual serving of milk
3. (uncountable, slang) milk, semen

Derived terms

• café au lait
• chocolat au lait
• cochon de lait
• confiture de lait
• dent de lait
• fièvre de lait
• frère de lait
• lait de chaux
• lait de coco
• lait de poule
• lait d’âne
• lait écrémé
• lait en poudre
• lait entier
• lait végétal
• laitage
• laitance
• laiterie
• montée de lait
• petit-lait
• riz au lait
• soupe au lait
• surveiller comme le lait sur le feu
• thé au lait
• vache à lait

 

Related terms

• lact-, lacto-
• lacté
• laiteux
• laitier
• laitue

Further reading

• “lait”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• a-t-il
• liât

Middle English

Noun

lait

1. Alternative form of leyt

Norman

Etymology

From Old French lait, from Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare French lait.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

  (file)

Noun

lait m (plural laits)

1. milk

Derived terms

• lait bidoux (“milk on the turn”)
• lait cailli êputhé (“curd”)
• lait cailli (“curdled milk”)
• lait d'beurre (“buttermilk”)
• lait d'bronzage (“suntan lotion”)
• lait d'poule (“milkshake”)
• lait êcrémé (“skimmed milk”)
• lait su (“sour milk”)
• laitchi (“milk jug, milkman”)
• laiteux (“milky”)
• lait'tie (“dairy”)
• vaque à lait (“dairy cow”)

 

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedocien)

  (file)

Noun

lait m (plural laits)

1. Alternative form of lach

Old French

Alternative forms

• leid, led

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (early) /lajt/, (later) /lɛjt/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.

Noun

lait oblique singular, m (oblique plural laiz or laitz, nominative singular laiz or laitz, nominative plural lait)

1. milk (white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals)

Descendants

• French: lait ⇒ laiteron
  • Haitian Creole: lèt
• Norman: lait
• ⇒ Walloon: laecea

Etymology 2

Thought to be of Germanic origin; see Modern French laid.

Adjective

lait m (oblique and nominative feminine singular laide)

2. ugly
3. horrific; awful; terrible

Declension

Declension of lait

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	laits, laiz, lais	laide	lait
	Oblique	lait			laide	lait
Plural	Subject	lait	laides		lait
	Oblique	laits, laiz, lais			laides	lait

Descendants

• Middle French: laid
  • French: laid
• Norman: laid (Jèrriais)
• Picard: léd (Athois), laizou (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: léd (Charleroi), laîd (Forrières), lêd (Liégeois)
• → Italian: laido
• → Old Spanish: laido
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: laido
  • Galician: laido
• → Sicilian: làitu, ladiu

Noun

lait oblique singular, m (nominative singular laiz or laitz)

1. ugliness

Etymology 3

See laire

Verb

lait

1. third-person singular present indicative of laire

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ˈit/, [la.ˈit]

Noun

lait

1. rope; cord

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaʔit/, [ˈla.ʔɪt]
• Hyphenation: la‧it

Noun

lait (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜁᜆ᜔)

1. revilement; derision; vilification

   Synonyms: mura, pagmura, alimura, pag-alimura, pagdusta, pandurusta

2. blasphemy

   Synonyms: paglapastangan, pagwawalang-pakundangan

Derived terms

• kalait-lait
• laitan
• lumait
• manlait
• manlalait
• mapanlait
• paglait

 

Anagrams

• tali

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English light.

Noun

lait

1. light
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:3:

     Na God i tok olsem, “Lait i mas kamap.” Orait lait i kamap.

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Adjective

lait

1. bright
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:24:

     God i rausim pinis man na meri, na em i makim ol strongpela ensel bilong sanap na was i stap long hap sankamap bilong gaden Iden. Na tu em i putim wanpela bainat i gat paia i lait long en na i save tanim tanim long olgeta hap. Oltaim ol dispela ensel wantaim dispela bainat i save was i stap, nogut wanpela man i go klostu long dispela diwai bilong givim laip.

     →New International Version translation

Related terms

• tulait