lafte

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Middle English

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Verb

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lafte

  1. 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.’

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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lafte (present tense laftar, past tense lafta, past participle lafta, passive infinitive laftast, present participle laftande, imperative lafte/laft)

  1. e-infinitive form of lafta (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)