laugh – English noun declension

English noun forms of laugh

Noun: laugh
Singularlaugh
Plurallaughs

Sample Sentences

  • And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. [1803, Oliver Goldsmith, The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of His Life, page 45:]
  • That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. [1869, F. W. Robertson, Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics, page 87:]
  • It never fails to get a laugh. Here's to more humor in chess. [1961 March, A. Robert Weeks, “Readers' Forum”, in Chess Review:]
  • His deep laughs boomed through the room.
  • “And this rug,” he says, stomping on an old rag carpet. “How much do you suppose that cost?” ¶ It was my first guess, so I said fifty dollars. ¶ “That’s a laugh,” he said. “I paid two thousand for that rug.” [1921, Ring Lardner, The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 73:]
  • Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true. [1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life:]
  • Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.
  • a good laugh
  • 2010, The Times, March 14, 2010, Tamzin Outhwaite, the unlikely musical star
  • Outhwaite is a good laugh, yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *klek-
3. Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną
4. Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan
5. Old English hliehhander.
6. Old English hlæhhan
7. Middle English laughen, laghen
8. English laugh
9. From Middle English laughen, laghen, from (Anglian) Old English hlæhhan, hlehhan, (West Saxon) hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
10. Cognates
11. Germanic: Scots lauch (“to laugh”), Yola leeigh, leigh (“to laugh”), North Frisian laache, lachi, laake, loache, lååke (“to laugh”), Saterland Frisian laachje (“to laugh”), West Frisian laitsje (“to laugh”), Alemannic German lache (“to laugh”), Cimbrian lachan (“to laugh”), Dutch, German, and Low German lachen (“to laugh”), Luxembourgish laachen (“to laugh”), Yiddish לאַכן (lakhn, “to laugh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish le (“to laugh”), Elfdalian läa (“to laugh”), Faroese læa (“to laugh”), Icelandic hlæja (“to laugh”), Norwegian Nynorsk le, læ, læja (“to laugh”), Crimean Gothic lachen (“to laugh”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hlahjan, “to laugh”).
12. Indo-European: Breton kloc'h (“bell”), Irish clog (“bell; clock”), Manx and Scottish Gaelic clag (“bell”), Welsh cloch (“bell”), Russian клекота́ть (klekotátʹ), клокота́ть (klokotátʹ), клохта́ть (kloxtátʹ, “to cluck, cackle”). See: Old English Nouns 'hlæhhan', Faroese Nouns 'læa', Icelandic Nouns 'hlæja', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'le', Irish Nouns 'clog'.

Verbs referencing "laugh"

Danish Nouns latter.