Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lot
Participle: lotted
Gerund: lotting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lot |
| you | lot |
| he;she;it | lots |
| we | lot |
| you | lot |
| they | lot |
Perfect
| I | have lotted |
| you | have lotted |
| he;she;it | has lotted |
| we | have lotted |
| you | have lotted |
| they | have lotted |
Past
| I | lotted |
| you | lotted |
| he;she;it | lotted |
| we | lotted |
| you | lotted |
| they | lotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had lotted |
| you | had lotted |
| he;she;it | had lotted |
| we | had lotted |
| you | had lotted |
| they | had lotted |
Future
| I | will lot |
| you | will lot |
| he;she;it | will lot |
| we | will lot |
| you | will lot |
| they | will lot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lotted |
| you | will have lotted |
| he;she;it | will have lotted |
| we | will have lotted |
| you | will have lotted |
| they | will have lotted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lot |
| you | lot |
| he;she;it | lot |
| we | lot |
| you | lot |
| they | lot |
Perfect
| I | have lotted |
| you | have lotted |
| he;she;it | have lotted |
| we | have lotted |
| you | have lotted |
| they | have lotted |
Imperfect
| I | lotted |
| you | lotted |
| he;she;it | lotted |
| we | lotted |
| you | lotted |
| they | lotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had lotted |
| you | had lotted |
| he;she;it | had lotted |
| we | had lotted |
| you | had lotted |
| they | had lotted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lot |
| you | would lot |
| he;she;it | would lot |
| we | would lot |
| you | would lot |
| they | would lot |
Perfect
| I | would have lotted |
| you | would have lotted |
| he;she;it | would have lotted |
| we | would have lotted |
| you | would have lotted |
| they | would have lotted |
Imperative
| you | lot |
| we | Let's lot |
| you | lot |
Verbs conjugated like 'lot'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lot'
blot,
bot,
clot,
dot,
got,
hot,
jot,
lat,
let,
lit,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. hlot "object (anything from dice to straw, but often a chip of wood with a name inscribed on it) used to determine someone's share," also "what falls to a person by lot," from P.Gmc. *khlutom (cf. O.N. hlutr "lot, share," O.H.G. hluz "share of land," O.E. hleotan "to cast lots, to foretell"), of unknown origin. The object was placed with others in a receptacle, which was shaken, the winner being the one that fell out first. Hence, to cast lots. In some cases the lots were drawn by hand. The word was adopted from Gmc. into the Romanic languages (cf. lottery, lotto). Meaning "choice resulting from the lasting of lots" first attested c.1205. Sense of "plot of land" is first recorded 1633 (distribution of the best property in new settlements often determined by casting lot), that of "group, collection" is 1725, from notion of auction lots. The generalized sense of "great many" is first attested in 1812. To cast (one's) lot with another is to agree to share winnings.
2. From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.
3. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.
Sample Sentences
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Sometimes the contractor would lot the work out to some sub-contractor, and he, after the men had worked for a month, would run away, and we should never see the colour of his money. [1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:]