different between noy vs loy

English

Etymology

Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??/

Verb

noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]

   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     "In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe."]

Alternative forms

• noie (obsolete)

Noun

noy

1. (obsolete) annoyance

Anagrams

• Yon, yon

Catalan

Noun

noy m (plural noys)

1. Obsolete spelling of noi

Further reading

• “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Etymology

From Irish laighe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

loy (plural loys)

1. (Ireland) A type of spade used in Ireland.
   • 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 28:

     They were wielding the tools of their livelihood, but as weapons – scythes, hoes, loys, billhooks.

Anagrams

• 'oly, -oyl, lyo-, oyl

Kholosi

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ????? (loman), ????? (roman, “hair”).

Noun

loy ?

1. (anatomy) hair

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[1], pages 13-36

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French loi, from Latin lex, legem.

Noun

loy f (plural loix)

1. law

Descendants

• French: loi