lain

• IPA^(key): /leɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: lane

Inflected forms.

lain

1. past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)

   He had lain there for many hours.

   The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.

• The past participle of lie (“tell a lie, not tell a truth”) is lied.
• The past participle of lay (“put down”) is laid.

From Middle English lainen, leynen, from Old Norse leyna (“to conceal”) and Old English lēġnian, līeġnan (“to deny; conceal”); both from Proto-Germanic *laugnijaną, from Proto-Germanic *laugnō (“secrecy”).

• lean, len (dialectal)

lain (third-person singular simple present lains, present participle laining, simple past and past participle lained)

1. (obsolete) To conceal, keep quiet about. [14^th-19^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter j, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:

     Also broder sir Agrauayne and sir mordred in lyke wyse sir Launcelot rescowed yow bothe and thre score and two from sir Turquyn / Me thynketh broder suche kynde dedes and kyndenes shold be remembryd / doo as ye lyst sayd syr Agrauayne for I wylle layne it no lenger

• INLA, Ilan, LNAI, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, anil, nail

lain

1. part

lain

1. distinct, different
2. other

lain

1. another, other

lain

1. (poetic) Synonym of lainkaan

lain

1. Instructive plural form of laki.
2. Genitive singular form of laki.

• alin, lian, nila

Cognate to Cebuano lain.

lain (plural lain-lain)

1. other, another, else

   Saya rasa saya harus mencari pekerjaan lain.

   I think I must look for another job.

   Pasti ada cara lain untuk menyelesaikan masalah ini.

   There must be another way to resolve this problem.

2. different, distinct

   Tingkah lakunya lain dari yang lain.

   His behavior is different from the others.

   Synonym: beda

3. next, second

• (Courland) laint

From Proto-Finnic *laineh.

lain

1. wave

• (Sutsilvan) len
• (Sursilvan, Surmiran) lenn

From Latin lignum. Compare Ladin lën, Friulian len.

lain m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) wood

From English line.

lain

1. line; row; queue
2. group; family; clan; tribe; cohort
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:15:

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