laik
English
/leɪk/
verb
Definitions
- (UK) To play (in the sense opposed to work).
Etymology
Inherited from Old English lāc (sport, play, action, demonstration, gift, present, message, booty, strife, sacrifice, performance, ritual, battle, offering) inherited from Proto-Germanic *laiką (fight, sport, play, activity, hymn, jump, dance, spring, game).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*laiką
Gloss
fight, sport, play, activity, hymn, jump, dance, spring, game
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
踊
Emoji
🛡️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- λαϊκός Ancient Greek
- *leyg- Proto-Indo-European
- lek Norwegian Bokmål
- *laikaz Proto-Germanic
- *laiką Proto-Germanic
- lek Swedish
- leka Swedish
- lekplats Swedish
- leksak Swedish
- väderleka Swedish
- lek Norwegian Nynorsk
- -lac Old English
- -lāc Old English
- aglæca Old English
- heaþolac Old English
- lac Old English
- lāc Old English
- barnaleikr Old Norse
- barnleikr Old Norse
- dansleikr Old Norse
- hildileikr Old Norse
- hjǫrleikr Old Norse
- hǫrpuleikr Old Norse
- kappleikr Old Norse
- knattleikr Old Norse
- leikligr Old Norse
- leikr Old Norse
- áleikr Old Norse
- ísarnleikr Old Norse
- leg Danish
- leikur Icelandic
- -leiki Faroese
- leikur Faroese
- 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 Gothic
- leka, lēka Old Swedish
- Tallak Norwegian
- Tollak Norwegian
- Torlak Norwegian
- Torleik Norwegian