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See also: läid and Laid

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leɪd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

laid

  1. simple past and past participle of lay
  2. (colloquial) simple past and past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
    Synonyms: (simple past) lay, (past participle) lain

Derived terms

Adjective

laid (not comparable)

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

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Estonian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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
Declension
More information Declension of (ÕS type 22u/leib, d-ø gradation), singular ...
Declension of laid (ÕS type 22u/leib, d-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative laid laiad
accusative nom.
gen. laia
genitive laidade
partitive laida laidu
laidasid
illative laida
laiasse		 laidadesse
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
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More information Declension of (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation), singular ...
Declension of laid (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative laid laiud
accusative nom.
gen. laiu
genitive 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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Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *laito, possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laidō.

Noun

laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)

  1. islet, holm
Declension
More information Declension of (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation), singular ...
Declension of laid (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative laid laiud
accusative nom.
gen. laiu
genitive 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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French

Etymology

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“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”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Occitan lag (“ugly”). More at loath.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. physically ugly
    Synonyms: moche, vilain
  2. morally corrupt

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

Old French lait (feminine laide).

Adjective

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.

Descendants

  • French: laid

Norman

Etymology

From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

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 terms

  • 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”)

Welsh

Noun

laid

  1. Soft mutation of llaid.

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...
Mutated forms of llaid
radical soft nasal aspirate
llaid laid unchanged unchanged
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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