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lain en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /leɪn/

Etymology

Inflected forms.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
   form of lie
   • The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.
   • I ascended to my room, and lay down upon the bed. A whole hour I must have lain thus, with my head resting upon my hand. 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter XII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/XII):
   • He had lain there for many hours.
2. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of lay (“to put down”)
   form of lay

Synonyms

laid

Translations (9)

de gelegen (situated horizontally) · id membaringkan (situated horizontally) · es tumbado (situated horizontally) · id berbaring (situated horizontally) · eo kuŝinta (situated horizontally) · id dibaringkan (situated horizontally) · id terbaring (situated horizontally) · ja 横になった (situated horizontally) · nl gelegen (situated horizontally)

lain en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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• /leɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English lainen, leynen, from Old Norse leyna (“to conceal”) and Old English līeġnan (“to deny; conceal”); both from Proto-Germanic *laugnijaną, from Proto-Germanic *laugnō (“secrecy”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To conceal, keep quiet about.
   • Also broder sir Agrauayne and sir mordred in lyke wyse sir Launcelot rescowed yow bothe and thre score and two from sir Turquyn / Me thynketh broder suche kynde dedes and kyndenes shold be remembryd / doo as ye lyst sayd syr Agrauayne for I wylle layne it no lenger 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:

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