different between laughe vs laughen

English

Verb

laughe (third-person singular simple present laughes, present participle laughing, simple past and past participle laughed)

1. Archaic spelling of laugh.

Middle English

Verb

laughe

1. Alternative form of laughen

English

Verb

laughen

1. obsolete past participle of laugh.

Anagrams

• Hangeul, han-geul, hangeul

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) lahh?henn, lih?en, leh?en, lahhen, lauhwen
• laughe, laghe, laghen, lawen, leigh, leygh, lei?e, ley?e, lau?e, lau?he, law?e, ly?he, lau?en, lau?when, leigh?en, lawhyn

Etymology

From Old English hlæhhan, alternative form of hlehhan, hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjan?.

Pronunciation

• (primarily Early ME) IPA^(key): /?lax?n/, /?l?x?n/
• IPA^(key): /?lau?x?n/, /?l?i?x?n/, /?li?x?n/

Verb

laughen

1. To laugh; to break out in laughter or laughing.

2. To express glee or joyfulness; to show happiness.

3. (usually with a preposition) To reminisce about; to remember with affection.
4. (rare) To laugh about an incident or thing.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• laughter
• lawghynge

Descendants

• English: laugh
• Scots: lauch
• Yola: leeigh

References

• “laughen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.