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Lain

//leɪn// name, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”) form-of, participle, past

    "He had lain there for many hours."

  2. 2
    To conceal, keep quiet about. obsolete

    "Also broder sir Agrauayne and sir mordred in lyke wyse sir Launcelot rescowed yow bothe and thre score and two from sir Turquyn / Me thynketh broder suche kynde dedes and kyndenes shold be remembryd / doo as ye lyst sayd syr Agrauayne for I wylle layne it no lenger"

  3. 3
    past participle of lay (“to put down”) colloquial, form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

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Etymology 2

From Middle English lainen, leynen, from Old Norse leyna (“to conceal”) and Old English līeġnan (“to deny; conceal”); both from Proto-Germanic *laugnijaną, from Proto-Germanic *laugnō (“secrecy”).

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