laid
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb
laid
- simple past tense and past participle of lay
Derived terms
- get laid
- laid rope
Adjective
laid (not comparable)
- (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
Derived terms
- creamlaid
- well-laid
Translations
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Anagrams
- Dail, Dali, Dalí, Dial, dali, dial, dial.
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)
- width (of cloth)
- plank on the side of a boat.
- side of a boat.
- board, starboard
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | laid | laiad |
genitive | laia | laidade |
partitive | laida | laidu / laidasid |
illative | laida / laiasse | laidadesse / laiusse |
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 |
singular | plural | |
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nominative | laid | laiud |
genitive | laiu | laidude |
partitive | laidu | laide / laidusid |
illative | laidu / laiusse | laidudesse / laiesse |
inessive | laius | laidudes / laies |
elative | laiust | laidudest / laiest |
allative | laiule | laidudele / laiele |
adessive | laiul | laidudel / laiel |
ablative | laiult | laidudelt / laielt |
translative | laiuks | laidudeks / laieks |
terminative | laiuni | laidudeni |
essive | laiuna | laidudena |
abessive | laiuta | laidudeta |
comitative | laiuga | laidudega |
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)
- islet, holm
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | laid | laiud |
genitive | laiu | laidude |
partitive | laidu | laide / laidusid |
illative | laidu / laiusse | laidudesse / laiesse |
inessive | laius | laidudes / laies |
elative | laiust | laidudest / laiest |
allative | laiule | laidudele / laiele |
adessive | laiul | laidudel / laiel |
ablative | laiult | laidudelt / laielt |
translative | laiuks | laidudeks / laieks |
terminative | laiuni | laidudeni |
essive | laiuna | laidudena |
abessive | laiuta | laidudeta |
comitative | laiuga | laidudega |
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
- IPA(key): /lɛ/
audio (file) - Homophones: lai, laids, lais, lait, laits (general), legs (dated)
Adjective
laid (feminine laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
- physically ugly
- Synonyms: moche, vilain
- morally corrupt
Derived terms
- jolie laide
- laid comme les sept péchés capitaux
- laid comme un pou
Further reading
- “laid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Old French lait (feminine laide).
Adjective
laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
- 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.
- Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.
- 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
Descendants
- French: laid
Norman
Etymology
From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Adjective
laid m
- (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
- Soft mutation of llaid.
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
llaid | laid | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |