lait

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To seek; search for; inquire. UK,ambitransitive,dialectal,obsolete
    — By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.

词形变化

laits present,singular,third-person laiting participle,present laited participle,past laited past late alternative

词源

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”).
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