Noun: laîche
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | laîche |
| Plural f | laîches |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like laîche
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French laische, from Old French lesche (“sedge”), from Frankish *lisca, *liska (“sedge”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *hlisku, *hlisiku, *hlusiku (“sedge”), a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *hlus (“reed, sedge”). The ultimate origin could be:.
2. speculated ultimate origins
3. * Borrowed from Romance/Medieval Latin lisca, though the reverse is also possible; this could be from Vulgar Latin *alisca, from Latin arista (“(ear of) corn, grain, awn”).
4. * From Proto-Indo-European *leu, related to Lithuanian laure (“dirty person”), referring to the mud it grows in.
5. * From a pre-Germanic/pre-Roman substrate language.
6. Cognate with Old High German liska, lisca ( > Modern German Liesch (“sedge”)), Old Saxon hlus (“rush, reed”), Middle Dutch lies, liesc (“sedge”). See: Latin Nouns '
arista', German Nouns '
Liesch'.
Verbs referencing "laîche"
Italian Nouns
lisca, German Nouns
Liesch.
Translations