laai

From Dutch laden with the chiefly southern Dutch dialectal development -ade- → -aaie-.

laai (present laai, present participle laaiende, past participle gelaai)

1. to load

From Dutch lade with the same development as above. The predominant form in contemporary Dutch is la (with another, chiefly northern Dutch, type of contraction).

laai (plural laaie, diminutive laaitjie)

1. drawer (box)

From Dutch laai.

laai (plural laaie, diminutive laaitjie)

1. flame

From Middle Dutch laeye. Further origin unsettled. It could be from an unattested Old Frisian term, from Proto-Germanic *laugijaz, and thus a cognate of Old English līeġ, Old High German loug and Old Norse leygr. Compare also German Lohe (“flame”), an ablaut variant of the latter two.

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laai f (plural laaien, diminutive laaitje n)

1. flame
2. glow

• (flame): vlam

• laaien, lichterlaaie, ontlaaien

laai

1. first-person singular present indicative of laaien
2. imperative of laaien

laai 

1. last, final