laissier

Old French

Alternative forms

• laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier

Etymology

From Latin laxō, laxāre (“to relax, loosen”); also possibly partly from or influenced by Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, leave”) (German lassen), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan (“to let, leave, leave alone”). There was also an Old French verb laiier, with the same meaning and sometimes considered a variant form, which may have come instead from Frankish *laibijan.

Verb

laissier

1. to allow; to permit
   • c. 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar:

     Kar ne se volt laissier murir

     Because he didn't want to let himself die

2. to leave (not prohibit)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of laissier (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		laissier			avoir laissié
gerund		en laissant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		laissant
past participle		laissié
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	lais	laisses	laisse	laissons	laissiez	laissent
	imperfect	laissoie, laisseie, laissoe, laissieve	laissoies, laisseies, laissoes, laissieves	laissoit, laisseit, laissot, laissieve	laissiiens, laissiens	laissiiez, laissiez	laissoient, laisseient, laissoent, laissievent
	preterite	laissai	laissas	laissa	laissames	laissastes	laissierent
	future	laisserai	laisseras	laissera	laisserons	laisseroiz, laissereiz, laisserez	laisseront
	conditional	laisseroie, laissereie	laisseroies, laissereies	laisseroit, laissereit	laisseriiens, laisseriens	laisseriiez, laisseriez	laisseroient, laissereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	lais	lais	laist	laissons	laissiez	laissent
	imperfect	laissasse	laissasses	laissast	laississons, laississiens	laississoiz, laississez, laississiez	laissassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	laisse, lais	—	laissons	laissiez	—

Descendants

• Middle French: laisser, laissier
  • French: laisser
    • → Breton: lezel
• Norman: laîssi
• Picard: laissier
• → Middle English: *lesen
  • English: lease, leese (Scotland)
    • → Dutch: leasen
    • ⇒ English: leasing
      • → Spanish: leasing
      • → Finnish: leasing
      • → Polish: leasing
      • → Swedish: leasing
  • Scots: lease
  • → Middle Irish: léas
    • Irish: léas

See also

• laiier, laire

Picard

Alternative forms

• laicier

Etymology

From Old French laissier, from Latin laxō, laxāre (“to relax, loosen”); partly from or influenced by Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, leave”) (German lassen), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to let, leave, leave alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, let”).

Conflated also with Old French laiier (“to leave, abandon, allow”) (compare Old Occitan laihar, laiar, Old Northern Italian lagare), also of Germanic origin, from Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan, “to lay, let lie, leave”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”). More at let, lay.

Verb

laissier

1. to let, to leave

   I feut laissier ches vakes din'ch prè.

   You have to let the cows in the field.

2. to leave alone
3. to leave with, to give
4. to let, to allow

   Laisse-les foaire !

   Let them do !

5. (reflexive, ès laissier) to allow oneself, to let oneself

Conjugation

    Conjugation in Picard

infinitive			laissier
gerund			laissiant
auxiliary			avoèr
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		laissiè		laissièe
		plural		laissiès		laissièes
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ej (j')	tu (t')	i (il)/ale	(n)os	os	is
	present	laisse	laisses	laisse	laissions	laissez	laisstte
	imperfect	laissoé	laissoés	laissoét	laissoinmes	laissoètes	laissoètte
	future	laisserai laissero	laisseros	laissero	laisserons	laisserez	laisseront
	conditional	laisseroé	laisseroés	laisseroét	laisseroinmes	laisseroètes	laisseroètte
subjunctive		qu'ej (j')	qu'tu (t')	qu'i (il)/ale	qu'(n)os	qu'os	qu'is
	present	laisse	laisses	laisse	laissionche	laissèche	laisstte
imperative		—	tu	—	(n)os	os	—
	affirmative		laisse		laissions	laissez