leyen

• leyn, leygen, layn, leggen, leghen, lecchen

From Old English leċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛi̯ən/

leyen

1. to lay
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde‎^[1]:

     The sterne wind so loude gan to route That no wight other noyse mighte here; And they that layen at the dore with-oute, 745 Ful sykerly they slepten alle y-fere; And Pandarus, with a ful sobre chere, Goth to the dore anon with-outen lette, Ther-as they laye, and softely it shette.

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• English: lay
• Scots: lay
• Yola: laaye, laay

• “leien, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.