lait
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of lait
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(UK, ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete)To seek; search for; inquire.
“By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.”
“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?”
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verb
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(UK, ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete)To seek; search for; inquire.
“By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.”
“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?”
name
- A surname from Old Norse.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
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