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English
English : habitational name from any of three places in Essex – Layer Breton, Layer de la Haye, and Layer Marney – all named from a river name, Leire, or from Leire in Leicestershire, also named from an identical river name. The river name is of Celtic origin and is probably the base of the tribal name Ligore, found in the place name Leicester.English : nickname or status name from Anglo-Norman French le eyr ‘the heir’. Compare Ayer.English : occupational name for a stone layer, Middle English leyer; the job of the layer was to position the stones worked by the masons.German : habitational name for someone from any of the various placed named Lay, in the Rhineland and Bavaria.
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English : habitational name from any of various places in northern France named with the Germanic element lÄr ‘clearing’.English : variant of Layer.English : nickname from Old English hlÄ“or ‘cheek’, ‘face’Irish : reduced Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Giolla Uidhir ‘son of the swarthy lad’ or ‘son of the servant of Odhar’, a byname from odhar (genitive uidhir) ‘dun-colored’, ‘weatherbeaten’. Compare McAleer.
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Egyptian
, born at night.
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Arabic
Nights; Plural of Layla
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from Leyland in Lancashire (recorded in Domesday Book as Lailand), or from Laylands in Yorkshire; both are named from Old English lǣge ‘untilled ground’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’. In some cases the name may be topographical.
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English : habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, as for example those in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Shropshire, are named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘settlement’. Compare Layton.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman).Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut ‘people’, or possibly liub ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + man ‘man’.Americanized form of German Leimann, Americanized form of Leinemann, habitational name for someone from Leine in Pomerania, or for someone who lived by either of two rivers called Leine, near Hannover and in Saxony.
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English : variant of Lee.Scottish : reduced variant of McClay.French : habitational name from places so named in Loire, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Pyrénées-Atlantique.German : habitational name from places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, named with lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘slate’.
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English
Variant spelling of English Lane, LAYNE means "lives by the lane."Â
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lÄd ‘watercourse’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from lÄ“ac ‘leek’ + tÅ«n. Compare Leighton.
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English : variant spelling of Layton.Galician and Portuguese : perhaps a variant spelling of Leitón, or Leitã (Galacian) a nickname meaning ‘suckling pig’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Layland.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from Laycock in West Yorkshire or possibly from Lacock in Wiltshire. Both are recorded in Domesday Book as Lacoc and seem to be named with a diminutive of Old English lacu ‘stream’.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : unexplained; possibly a variant of Leeson.
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English : variant of Lanier 1.Dutch : variant of Leonard.Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : name taken by someone who was good at chanting the Pentateuch at public worship in the synagogue or who regularly did so, from West Yiddish layner ‘reader’ (a derivative of West Yiddish laynen ‘to read’, which comes ultimately from Latin legere ‘to read’).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a flax grower or merchant, from German Lein ‘flax’ + agent suffix -er.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Leighton, LAYTON means "leek garden."
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye.Americanized spelling of German Lehmann.German : variant of Lay 3.
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English : variant of Layman.
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English : variant spelling of Leake.Dutch (de Leek) : nickname for an uneducated or ignorant person, from Dutch leek ‘layman’.
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English : variant of Laycock.
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n.
A propagating by layers.
v. t.
To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
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To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
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The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
v. t.
To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
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The act of one who, or that which, lays.
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of Layman
n.
The condition of being a layman.
v. i.
To lay a wager; to bet.
v. t.
To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
v. t.
To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
v. t.
A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
n.
One who, or that which, lays.
v. t.
To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
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A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
v. t.
To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
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That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
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That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
v. i.
To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
v. t.
To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.