laid

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

laid

1. simple past and past participle of lay

Derived terms

• get laid
• laid rope

Adjective

laid (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

• creamlaid
• deep-laid
• well-laid

Translations

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)

1. width (of cloth)
2. plank on the side of a boat.
3. side of a boat.
4. board, starboard

Declension

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

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/

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• Homophones: lai, laids, lais, lait, laits (general), legs (dated)

Adjective

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

1. physically ugly

   Synonyms: moche, vilain

2. 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 , 2012.

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”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).

Pronunciation

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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