different between lair vs laik

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: layer (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English le?er (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-.

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
2. A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
3. (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     ...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"

4. (Britain dialectal) A bed or resting place.
5. (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot. [from c. 1420]

Synonyms

• (of an animal): burrow (of some smaller mammals), den (of a lion or tiger), holt (of an otter)
• (of a criminal): den, hide-out

Derived terms

• (grave): lair-stone (“tombstone”)

Translations

Verb

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

1. (Britain) To rest; to dwell.
2. (Britain) To lay down.
3. (Britain) To bury.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”).

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. (Scotland) A bog; a mire.

Verb

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To mire.
2. (intransitive, Scotland) To become mired.

Etymology 3

Backformation from lairy.

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[3], volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 505–506
• “lair” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• aril, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial

Manx

Noun

lair f

1. Alternative form of laair

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?r (“instruction”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lair/
• Rhymes: -er

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. lore
   • "Ower mony a fair-farrant an rare beuk o precious lair" (second line of "The Raven" translated into Scots).

English

Etymology

From Old English l?c, from Proto-Germanic *laik? (“game, dance, hymn, sport, fight”). Cognates include Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), Gothic ???????????????????? (laiks, “dance”). Doublet of lek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?k/

Verb

laik (third-person singular simple present laiks, present participle laiking, simple past and past participle laiked)

1. (Britain, Northern, dialect) To play (in the sense opposed to work).

Anagrams

• Kail, Kali, Laki, Lika, ilka, kail, kali, kila

Czech

Noun

laik m

1. layman (non-cleric)
2. layman (non-professional)

Derived terms

• laický m

See also

• amatér m

Latvian

Noun

laik m

1. vocative singular of laiks

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English like.

Verb

laik

1. like

Polish

Etymology

From Latin laicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.ik/

Noun

laik m pers

1. layman (non-cleric)
2. layman (non-professional)

   Synonyms: amator, dyletant

Declension

Further reading

• laik in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• laik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ik/
• Hyphenation: la?ik

Noun

làik m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. layman (non-cleric)
2. layman (non-professional)

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English like

Noun

laik

1. wish, desire

Verb

laik

1. an auxiliary verb which indicates the immediate future tense
2. (infinitive) to be willing
3. like
4. want

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French laïque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.ic/

Adjective

laik (comparative daha laik, superlative en laik)

1. secular

Noun

laik (definite accusative lai?i, plural laikler)

1. secularist, laicist

See also

• laiklik
• laisizm