laissier

• laiser, laisier, laisser, lesser, lessier

From Latin laxō, laxāre (“to relax, loosen”); also possibly partly from or influenced by Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, leave”) (German lassen), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan (“to let, leave, leave alone”). There was also an Old French verb laiier, with the same meaning and sometimes considered a variant form, which may have come instead from Frankish *laibijan.

laissier

1. to allow; to permit
   • c. 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar:

     Kar ne se volt laissier murir

     Because he didn't want to let himself die

2. to leave (not prohibit)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: laisser, laissier
  • French: laisser
    • → Breton: lezel
• Norman: laîssi
• Picard: laissier
• → Middle English: *lesen
  • English: lease, leese (Scotland)
    • → Dutch: leasen
    • ⇒ English: leasing
      • → Spanish: leasing
      • → Finnish: leasing
      • → Polish: leasing
      • → Swedish: leasing
  • Scots: lease
  • → Middle Irish: léas
    • Irish: léas

• laiier, laire

• laicier

From Old French laissier, from Latin laxō, laxāre (“to relax, loosen”); partly from or influenced by Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, leave”) (German lassen), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to let, leave, leave alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, let”).

Conflated also with Old French laiier (“to leave, abandon, allow”) (compare Old Occitan laihar, laiar, Old Northern Italian lagare), also of Germanic origin, from Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan, “to lay, let lie, leave”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”). More at let, lay.

laissier

1. to let, to leave

   I feut laissier ches vakes din'ch prè.

   You have to let the cows in the field.

2. to leave alone
3. to leave with, to give
4. to let, to allow

   Laisse-les foaire !

   Let them do !

5. (reflexive, ès laissier) to allow oneself, to let oneself

    Conjugation in Picard

infinitive			laissier
gerund			laissiant
auxiliary			avoèr
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		laissiè		laissièe
		plural		laissiès		laissièes
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ej (j')	tu (t')	i (il)/ale	(n)os	os	is
	present	laisse	laisses	laisse	laissions	laissez	laisstte
	imperfect	laissoé	laissoés	laissoét	laissoinmes	laissoètes	laissoètte
	future	laisserai laissero	laisseros	laissero	laisserons	laisserez	laisseront
	conditional	laisseroé	laisseroés	laisseroét	laisseroinmes	laisseroètes	laisseroètte
subjunctive		qu'ej (j')	qu'tu (t')	qu'i (il)/ale	qu'(n)os	qu'os	qu'is
	present	laisse	laisses	laisse	laissionche	laissèche	laisstte
imperative		—	tu	—	(n)os	os	—
	affirmative		laisse		laissions	laissez