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Lait

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Old Norse.

Verb

1
To seek; search for; inquire. UK, ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete
"By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hlað (“pile, stack; barn”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near a barn.

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