- las-leiki
- a, m. ailment.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
lazy — (adj.) 1540s, laysy, of unknown origin. Replaced native slack, slothful, and idle as the main word expressing the notion of averse to work. In 19c. thought to be from LAY (Cf. lay) (v.) as tipsy from tip. Skeat is responsible for the prevailing… … Etymology dictionary