lafte

Middle English

Verb

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.’

References

• “lafte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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)