different between cast vs lay

English

Etymology

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kast?n? (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.

The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (Northern England): enPR: k?st, IPA^(key): /kast/
• (General American): enPR: k?st, IPA^(key): /kæst/
• Rhymes: -??st, -æst
• Homophones: caste, karst

Verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
   1. (now somewhat literary) To throw. [from 13^thc.]
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona:

        Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre […].

      • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, p.262:

        The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow […].

   2. To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. [from 14^thc.]
      • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:

        As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers) […].

   3. To throw down or aside. [from 15^thc.]
      • 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Matthew VI.30:

        it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

      • 1930, "Sidar the Madman", Time, 19 Dec.:

        Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.

      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:

        Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.

   4. (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat. [from 15^thc.]
   5. To cause (a horse or other large animal) to lie down with its legs underneath it.
   6. (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes). [from 14^thc.]
      • 1822, "Life of Donald McBane", Blackwood's Magazine, vol.12, p.745:

        when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons […].

      • 2002, Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian, 2 March:

        You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

   7. (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
   8. (obsolete) To vomit.

      • These verses […] make me ready to cast.

   9. (archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

      • Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
   10. (archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
       • 1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies

         This […] casts a sulphurous smell.

   • 1849, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History

     This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness

2. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). [from 13^thc.]
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:

     To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, I.11:

     She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement […].
3. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2:

     The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.

4. (social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
   1. (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.). [from 14^thc.]
      • , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:

        he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

      • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, 2012, p.332:

        John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.

      • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:

        He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.

   2. (obsolete) To plan, intend. [14^th-19^thc.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

        I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

      • 1685, William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus

        The cloister […] had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].

   3. (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance). [from 18^thc.]

   4. (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

   5. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

      • She […] cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

   6. (archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
      • Cast thy burden upon the Lord.

   7. (archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
      • 1822, John Galt, The Provost

        She was cast to be hanged.

      • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

        Were the case referred to any competent judge, […] they would inevitably be cast.

   8. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
      • 24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored

        How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

5. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
6. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
   • 1950, "A Global View", Time, 24 April:

     The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

   • 1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea:

     A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.

7. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry. [from 15^thc.]
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

     being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [transl. avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:

     The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.

9. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1923, "Rodin's Death", Time, 24 March:

     One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.

   1. (printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
10. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.). [from 16^thc.]
    • c. 1680, Joseph Moxon, The Art of Joinery

      Stuff is said to cast or warp when […] it alters its flatness or straightness.

11. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. [from 18^thc.]
12. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote). [from 19^thc.]
13. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text. [from 20^thc.]

14. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. [from 18^thc.]
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:

      He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

15. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

16. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
17. (media) To broadcast.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

cast (plural casts)

1. An act of throwing.
2. (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
3. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

   • a cast of scatter'd dust

4. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

5. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

   He’s in the cast of Oliver.

   The cast was praised for a fine performance.

6. The casting procedure.

   The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

7. An object made in a mould.

   The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

8. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

   The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

9. The mould used to make cast objects.

   A plaster cast was made from his face.

10. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:

      As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].

11. A squint.
    • 1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968:

      The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.

    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 7:

      Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.

12. Visual appearance.

    Her features had a delicate cast to them.
13. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.

    a cast of mind, a mental tendency.

    • 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, p. 40:

      The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.

    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:

      I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.

14. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
15. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
16. A group of crabs.
17. A broadcast.

Derived terms

• castless
• plaster cast

Translations

Further reading

• cast at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cats, scat

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin castus, possibly borrowed or semi-learned.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kast/

Adjective

cast (feminine casta, masculine plural casts or castos, feminine plural castes)

1. chaste

Related terms

• castedat

Further reading

• “cast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k??st]
• Hyphenation: cast

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cast.

Noun

cast m (plural casts, diminutive castje n)

1. cast (people performing a movie or play)

Synonyms

• rolbezetting
• rolverdeling

Related terms

• casten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of casten
2. imperative of casten

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kast/
• Hyphenation: càst

Noun

cast m (invariable)

1. cast (group of actors performing together)

Manx

Adjective

cast

1. contorted, curly, curved
2. complex, intricate, many-sided
3. ticklish

Mutation

Derived terms

• castid
• castys
• neuchast
• yl-chast

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kast/

Adjective

cast m or n (feminine singular cast?, masculine plural ca?ti, feminine and neuter plural caste)

1. chaste, clean, pure

Declension

Synonyms

• pur

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kast/, [?kast?]

Noun

cast m (plural casts)

1. cast (group of actors)

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?, IPA^(key): /le?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: lei, ley, le

Etymology 1

From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English le??an (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjan? (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjan? (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie, recline”).

Cognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).

Verb

lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)

1. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
   • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

2. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.

   Synonyms: becalm, settle down
3. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
4. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

5. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.

6. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).

7. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
8. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.

   Synonyms: lie by, lie with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
9. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.

10. (law) To state; to allege.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

11. (military) To point; to aim.

12. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.

13. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
14. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
15. To apply; to put.
16. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
17. To impute; to charge; to allege.

    Synonyms: ascribe, attribute
18. To present or offer.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• The verb lay is sometimes used instead of the corresponding intransitive verb lie in informal settings, especially but not exclusively in spoken language. Similarly, laid, the past tense and perfect participle of lay, may also replace lay and lain, respectively the past tense and perfect participle of lie.
• This intransitive use dates to Middle English, first appearing in the thirteenth century but only becoming common in the fifteenth century. The usage was still chiefly limited to the present tense and it seems that it was influenced by reflexive or passive use of lay.
• There are several factors that contribute to the loss of the distinction. One is that lay is used as both the base form of lay and as the past tense of lie, another is the use of lay as a reflexive verb meaning “to go lie (down)”. In any event, similar mergers exist in other Germanic languages; compare Afrikaans lê (“to lie; to lay”), where the two verbs have merged completely.
• Traditional grammars, schoolbooks and style guides object to this intransitive use of lay and a certain stigma remains against the practice. Consequently the usage is common in speech but rarely found in edited writing or in more formal spoken situations.
• Nautical use of lay as an intransitive verb is regarded as standard.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “lay”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

lay (countable and uncountable, plural lays)

1. Arrangement or relationship; layout.

   the lay of the land

2. A share of the profits in a business.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays, and that these lays were proportioned to the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship’s company.

3. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
   • 1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien

     Sad is the note and sad the lay,
     but mirth we meet not every day.

4. The direction a rope is twisted.

   Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

5. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
   • 1996, JoAnn Ross, Southern Comforts, MIRA (1996), ?ISBN, page 166:

     Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay.

   • 2000, R. J. Kaiser, Fruitcake, MIRA (2000), ?ISBN, page 288:

     To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay, Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen.

   • 2011, Kelly Meding, Trance, Pocket Books (2011), ?ISBN, pages 205-206:

     “Because I don't want William to be just another lay. I did the slut thing, T, and it got me into a lot of trouble years ago. […]

   What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?

6. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
   • 1993, David Halberstam, The Fifties, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”

   • 2009, Fern Michaels, The Scoop, Kensington Books (2009), ?ISBN, pages 212-213:

     […] She didn't become this germ freak until Thomas died. I wonder if she just needs a good lay, you know, an all-nighter?" Toots said thoughtfully.

   • 2011, Pamela Yaye, Promises We Make, Kimani Press (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     “What she needs is a good lay. If she had someone to rock her world on a regular basis, she wouldn't be such a raging bit—”

7. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)

8. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.

   The hens are off the lay at present.

9. (obsolete) A layer.
   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 5,^[1]

     […] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]

   • 1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: J. Tonson, “Sienna, Leghorne, Pisa,” p. 300,^[2]

     […] the whole Body of the Church is chequer’d with different Lays of White and Black Marble […]

   • 1724, Thomas Spooner, A Compendious Treatise of the Diseases of the Skin, London, Chapter 2, p. 20,^[3]

     […] when we examine the Scarf-Skin with a Microscope, it appears to be made up of several Lays of exceeding small Scales, which cover one another more or less […]

   • 1766, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 1, p. 16, footnote 1,^[4]

     […] in one particular it exceeds the fen birds, for it has two tastes; it being brown and white meat: under a lay of brown is a lay of white meat […]

Synonyms

• (casual sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:casual sexual partner.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English laie, lawe, from Old English lagu (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lakw- (“water, body of water, lake”). Cognate with Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”), Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”).

Noun

lay (plural lays)

1. A lake.

Etymology 3

From Old French lai, from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (laïkós). Doublet of laic.

Adjective

lay (comparative more lay, superlative most lay)

1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

   They seemed more lay than clerical.

   a lay preacher; a lay brother

2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
3. (card games) Not trumps.

   a lay suit

4. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 4

See lie.

Verb

lay

1. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.

   The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.

2. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
   • 1969 July, Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”, Nashville Skyline, Columbia:

     Lay, lady, lay. / Lay across my big brass bed.

   • 1974, John Denver, “Annie’s Song”, Back Home Again, RCA:

     Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you.

Derived terms

• layabout

Etymology 5

From Middle English lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Frankish *laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic *laikaz, *laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European *loyg-, *lay?- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Old English l?can (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). See lake.

Noun

lay (plural lays)

1. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

     I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer

     The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee,

     And call the stars to listen: every star

     Is deaf to mine, enamour’d of thy lay.

   • 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott.

Translations

Etymology 6

See lea

Noun

lay (plural lays)

1. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Etymology 7

Noun

lay (plural lays)

1. (obsolete) A law.
2. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.

   • they bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man

Etymology 8

Calque of Yiddish ?????? (leygn, “to put, lay”).

Verb

lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)

1. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

References

Anagrams

• Aly

Anguthimri

Verb

lay

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to carry

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French l'ail (“the garlic”)

Noun

lay

1. garlic

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??/

Postposition

lay

1. through
2. across

Verb

lay

1. to pass

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laya?, from Proto-Austronesian *laya?.

Noun

lay

1. sail (a piece of fabric attached to a boat)
2. tent

References

• lay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French ail

Noun

lay

1. garlic

Etymology 2

From Malagasy ley (butterfly)

Noun

lay

1. moth

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Verb

lay

1. Alternative form of leie: simple past of lien

Seychellois Creole

Etymology 1

From French ail

Noun

lay

1. garlic

Etymology 2

From Malagasy ley (butterfly)

Noun

lay

1. moth

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [laj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [laj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [la(?)j??]

Verb

lay

1. to shake

Derived terms