lafte
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]lafte
- simple past of leave
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3387-3388:
- [...] ‘And to our hye goddes thanke we
Of honour, that our eldres with us lafte.’- [...] ‘And to our high gods we give thanks
For the honor that our elders left with us.’
- [...] ‘And to our high gods we give thanks
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3387-3388:
References
[edit]- “lafte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]lafte (present tense laftar, past tense lafta, past participle lafta, passive infinitive laftast, present participle laftande, imperative lafte/laft)
- e-infinitive form of lafta (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)