Lai Definition

noun

(historical) A mostly North European form of medieval song, with stanzas that do not repeat.

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Noun

Singular:
lai
Plural:
lais

Origin of Lai

  • From Middle English lai, lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Old Frankish *laik, *laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic *laikaz, *laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European *loig-, *(e)laiǵ- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Gothic [script?] (laiks, “a dance”), Old English lācan (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). More at lake.

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Lai Sentence Examples

  • You join a boat run by Kat, who is a scientist looking to catalog the ocean's creatures off of Manoa Lai.

  • Saving and excepting the incident of his being stolen and brought up by a water-fairy (from a Lai relating which adventure the whole story probably started), there is absolutely nothing in Lancelot's character or career to distinguish him from any other romantic hero of the period.

  • Probably the story was first told in the form of short lais, each recounting some special episode, such as the lai known as the chevrefeuille; how old these may be it is impossible to say.

  • The Lay of Orpheus is known to us only through an English imitation; the Lai du cor was composed by Robert Biket, an Anglo-Norman poet of the 12th century (Wulff, Lund, 1888).

  • Meanwhile, back in Barcelona, Do Lai lies comatose on a guarded hospital room.

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Words Starting With

LLALAI

Words Ending With

IAILAI

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Words Starting With L and Ending With I

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