different between lask vs laik

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??sk/, /læsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

lask (plural lasks)

1. Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:

     A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].

   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, Folio Society 2007, p. 150:

     The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].

Anagrams

• Salk, alks

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) laskõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laskedak.

Verb

lask

1. let

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