name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old Norse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lait
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CMU ARPABET: L EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To seek; search for; inquire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete
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History
Etymology
From Old Norse hlað (“pile, stack; barn”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near a barn.
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”).