different between laughed vs laughen

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /læft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??ft/

Verb

laughed

1. simple past tense and past participle of laugh

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.