Lay

Definition: Lay

Lay

Adjective

1. Concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music".

2. Not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease".

Noun

1. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.

2. A narrative poem of popular origin.

Verb

1. Put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point".

2. Put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed".

3. Prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan".

4. Lay eggs; of female animals; "This hen doesn't lay".

5. Impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Metallurgy

Mining

Slang in 1811

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lay

Hindrance

Cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.

Intention

Risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for;risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.

Laity

Adjective: secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Plain

Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero.

Poetry

Song, ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music; nursery rhymes.

Production

Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.

Crosswords: Lay

Sranan (burden, charge, load), Wolof (to you).

The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

I'm gonna lay the smackdown on your candy-ass (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

I'll tell ya, I was hoping for a goodnight lay, but I'll settle for like a kiss (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

Either lay off politics, or get out. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Help me lay my cards out on the table (Lay Your Hands On Me; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

Lay down, Sally, no need to leave so soon (LAY DOWN SALLY; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON)

You lay your bets and then you pay the price (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC)

LAY ON YOUR PAWS I GOT YOUR BACK IF YOU FALL, HEY, HEY (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

And my home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

To Lay a Ghost (1971)

Don't Just Lay There (1970)

Lay Down Your Arms (1970)

Bilambita Lay (1970)

Lay That Rifle Down (1955)

As We Lay (performing artist: Kelly Price)

Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) (performing artist: Melanie)

Lay a Little Lovin' On Me (performing artist: Robin McNamara)

Lay Low (performing artist: Snoop Dogg)

As I Lay Me Down (performing artist: Sophie B. Hawkins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Tailors’ Dummies, Lay Figures, Automatons, and Animated Displays Used for Shop Window Dressing: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning (reference)

• As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Vintage International) (reference)

• Can the Pastor Do It Alone?: A Model for Preparing Lay People for Lay Pastoring (reference)

• Lay Down My Sword and Shield (reference)

• Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Lay Of The Land (reference)

• Lay Witness (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Snoop Dogg - Lay Low (DVD Single) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Lay Down & Love It Live (reference)

• Lay It Down (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A weasel making its way across a lagoon at Point Lay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Cat train enroute from Pitt Point to Point Lay. Train is hauled by caterpillar tractors - thus term "cat train". Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A winter sunset over the North Slope - note the parallel ridges in the snow. They always lay ENE-WSW in this area. The orientation of the ridges was used to navigate away from camp. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

HYDROLAB's success lay in the simple design and expert support personnel. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Diver disentangling rope from regulator while getting ready to lay a transect line. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

A stack of 122mm rockets lay in the Pit, March 11 and 12, 1991, near Khamisiyah, Iraq after being demolished. (Photo courtesy of the 307th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army).

Freshly dug potatoes lay on the ground to be placed in barrels for shipment to the processing plant during the Maine harvest near Limestone. Credit: USDA.

Cross section of a tunnel with a corn earworm pupa. The Diapetimorpha introita wasp is preparing to lay an egg in the pupal tunnel. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

A quarter-inch-long parasitic wasp, Peristenus digoneutis, prepares to lay an egg in a tarnished plant bug nymph. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And all the will, hatreds, and bitterness that have arisen between us and our men, clergy and lay, from the date of the quarrel, we have completely remitted and pardoned to everyone. (reference)

Whence it is plain, that at least a great part of the land lay in common; that the inhabitants valued it not, nor claimed property in any more than they made use of. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. (reference)

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. (reference)

The Director shall lay a summary of these reports before the next meeting of the Conference. (reference)

If we adhere faithfully to the Charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one's land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men; if all British moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the high-roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The first error and the worst lay at her door

Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head

May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch

Large quantities of similar rubbish lay lumbering the floor

Her long, fair eyelashes, the only beauty left to her of her maidenhood and youth, quivered as they lay closed upon her cheek

Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement

The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others

The outhouse lay on its side, and the cotton grew close against it.

The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Adult female ticks lay eggs on the ground in early spring. (references)

Females lay eggs. To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references)

The purpose of the symposium was to lay the foundation for a national plan for rapid stroke treatment. (references)

Business

Police also harassed and detained several underground church lay people in the Shanghai area. (references)

Of these, 13 were completed last year. By the end of this year, some of the major projects that will be completed include the extension of Boon Lay Way, the widening of the Pan Island Expressway, and the Crawford Street underpass. (references)

This strategy will lay the groundwork for expansion into new roles and missions, including joint warfare and peacekeeping under UN or OSCE authority, re-inforcement within NATO, naval gunfire support in littoral warfare, special forces insertion operations, and counter-mining warfare. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

Two Protestant churches under lay leadership and a Roman Catholic church (without a priest) have been opened since 1988 in Pyongyang. (references)

Vietnam

A priest, Pham Minh Tri, and a lay brother, Nguyen Thien Phung, belonging to the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix remain imprisoned reportedly for assisting in running an underground seminary. (references)

Economic History

The Holy See

Work force: 3,000 lay workers (reside outside the Vatican). (references)

Human Rights

Estonia

All judges and lay judges must be citizens. (references)

Angola

Judges usually are lay persons, not licensed lawyers. (references)

Vietnam

The VFF must approve candidates for SPC lay assessors. (references)

Indigenous People

Denmark

Accordingly it provides for the use of lay persons as judges and sentences most prisoners to holding centers (rather than to prisons) where they are encouraged to work, hunt, or fish during the day. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Reportedly the SPLA continued to lay landmines in Eastern Equatoria for defense purposes. (references)

Austria

The OVP's traditional constituency has been among farmers, large and small businesses, and lay Catholic groups. (references)

Political Rights

Iran

The Constitution provides for a Council of Guardians composed of six Islamic clergymen and six lay members who review all laws for consistency with Islamic law and the Constitution. (references)

Zimbabwe

In September government officials refused to meet in the country with a two-person team from the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), an NGO, to lay the groundwork for an election observation effort in the run-up to the presidential election expected in 2002. The team was asked to leave early by the Government. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

A number of economic and policy reforms are underway that will lay the foundation for a better climate conducive to foreign enterprises. (references)

Women

Ukraine

The Ministry of Labor estimated that at the end of 2000, 16 percent of working women are employed in hazardous jobs, and human rights groups have maintained that management selectively observed the law only as necessary to lay off or fire female workers. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Ongoing political education requirements are resented deeply by monks, nuns, and lay Buddhists. (references)

Morocco

According to employer groups, the law makes it extremely difficult to fire or lay off permanent employees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lay": a good lay ♦ an easy lay ♦ get the lay of the land ♦ i lay my head that ♦ i lay you a wager that ♦ i'll lay you that ♦ lay a bet ♦ lay a bridge ♦ lay a cable ♦ lay a carpet ♦ lay a claim to ♦ lay a cornerstone ♦ lay a distraint upon ♦ lay a finger upon ♦ lay a floor ♦ lay a foundation ♦ lay a ghost ♦ lay a mine ♦ lay a minefield ♦ lay a penalty on ♦ lay a plot ♦ lay a scheme ♦ lay a snare ♦ lay a snare for ♦ lay a track ♦ lay a train ♦ lay a trap ♦ lay a trap for ♦ lay a wait for ♦ lay a wet blanket on ♦ lay a woman ♦ lay about ♦ lay about one ♦ lay an ambush ♦ lay an egg ♦ lay an embargo on ♦ lay aside ♦ lay asleep ♦ lay at one's feet ♦ lay away ♦ lay back ♦ Lay baptism ♦ lay bare ♦ lay bare corruption ♦ lay before ♦ lay beside ♦ lay blame on ♦ lay breakfast ♦ lay bricks ♦ Lay brother ♦ lay by ♦ lay carefully ♦ lay claim ♦ lay claim to ♦ lay clerk ♦ Lay days ♦ lay dead ♦ lay down ♦ lay down a barrage ♦ lay down a rule ♦ lay down arms ♦ lay down as a condition ♦ lay down as a principle ♦ lay down bales/to ♦ lay down bombing ♦ lay down conditions ♦ lay down one's arms ♦ lay down one's hand ♦ lay down one's life ♦ lay down one's life for ♦ lay down rules ♦ lay down the groundwork for ♦ lay down the law ♦ lay down the rules ♦ lay down with ♦ lay dress ♦ lay eggs ♦ Lay elder ♦ lay emphasis on ♦ lay eyes on ♦ lay figure ♦ lay fire ♦ lay flagstones ♦ lay flat ♦ lay for ♦ lay great emphasis on ♦ lay great store upon ♦ lay hands on ♦ lay hold ♦ lay hold of ♦ lay in ♦ lay in a stock ♦ lay in a store ♦ lay in provisions ♦ lay in ruins ♦ lay in stocks ♦ lay in store ♦ lay in the coal ♦ lay into ♦ lay into smb. ♦ lay it on. Additional references.

Beginning with "lay": lay-abbacies, lay-abbacy, lay-abbot, lay-away, lay-back, lay-brother, lay-by, lay-bys, lay-clerk, lay-clerks, lay-dominated, lay-down, lay-economist, lay-et, lay-flat, lay-in, lay-land, lay-man, lay-managers, lay-missioner, lay-na, lay-off, lay-off pay, lay-off worker, lay-offs, lay-on, lay-oriented, lay-out, lay-outs, lay-over, lay-people, lay-person, lay-preacher, lay-reader, lay-up, lay-visiting, lay-woman, lay-women.

Ending with "lay": re-lay.

Containing "lay": Mar-see-lay-a.

Afrikaans

vat (captivate, capture, catch, get, grapple, lay hold of, pick, pick up, start off, take), optel (get, lay hold of, pick, pick up, take), oppik (get, lay hold of, pick, pick up, take), neem (accept, get, lay hold of, pick, pick up, receive, take, take in). (various references)

Albanian

laik (laic, layman, profane, secular, temporal), pr e foljes lie, instaloj (instal, install), këngë (canto, cantus, chanson, descant, song), kushte kontrate, melodi (air, cantus, descant, melody, tune), përgatit zjarrin, dashnore (inamorata, leman, lover, mistress, paramour), pozicion (attitude, fix, location, notch, pose, position, ranking, situation, stance, stand), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), profan (profane), profesion (calling, career, employment, line, metier, occupation, practice, profession, trade, vocation, walks of life), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), shtroj (board, civilize, dine, floor, macadamize, pacify, propound, spread, strew), tekst kënge (lyrics), vë (apply, attach, contract, deposit, direct, establish, get in, get on, impose, inflict, instal, install, instate, lay down, locate, mislay, place, plant, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), poezi (minstrelsy, poetry, rhyme, verse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, floor, heave, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), ‏بسط (couch, distend, expand, expound, extend, extension, facilitate, fine, reach, simplify, spread, state, stretch, unroll, unwind, unwrap, vulgarize), ‏دبر (administer, brew, cogitate, concoct, conduct, contrive, devise, engineer, prepare, set, spare), ‏دفن (burial, bury, earth, entomb, funeral, inhumation, inhume, inter, interment, lay to rest, put away), ‏راهن (bet, copper, gamble, plunge, stake, wager), ‏رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, protract, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave), ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off), ‏برم (bore, boredom, impatient, querulous, tire, twirl, worry), ‏جماع (coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, love making), ‏فتل (curl, kink, rope, torque, torsion, twiddle, twine, twist), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, mean, medial, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional, wont), ‏علماني (laic, laity, layman, secular, temporal, worldly), ‏زرع (crop, cultivate, grow, implant, plant, plantation, planting, put in, rear, seed, sow, sowing, vegetate), ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏مكمن (ambuscade, ambush, hiding place, lurking, lurking place), ‏ألقى اللوم على فلان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, pass, pitch, place, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put on, put up, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate, stage), наклаждам, нанасям (deal, deliver, inflict, land, plant), мирянски (profane), залагам (lay down, mortgage, pawn, pledge, pop, put, put up, shoot, stake, venture), жена (female, frail, gin, heifer, hen, lady, muslin, petticoat, piece, placket, rib, skirt, woman), балада (ballad, ballade), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), предявявам (advance, assert, pose, prefer, present, put in, raise), докарвам (account, bring, bring over, bring up, dress, dress up, drive, induce, land, produce, reduce, return, send, set, smarten, work), приписвам (accredit, assign, attach, credit, impute, refer, set down), насочвам (aim, bring round, fasten, guide, launch, level, point at, present, refer, ride at, set, set on, shape, sight, steer), постилам (spread, stretch), полово сношение (copulation, embrace, piece, screw), положение (aspect, capacity, circumstance, fettle, footing, juncture, place, placement, plight, point, position, posture, provision, set, set up, siege, situation, standing, state, train, way), полагам (place, put, put forth, put out, replace, repose, rest, run), подавам (feed, hand, hold out, pass, pitch, prefer, present, reach, supply, tender, thrust out), песен на птици, изгубвам от погледа си, изгонвам (cast off, chase, clear off, dispossess, drive away, drive out, eject, evict, feeze, hunt out, oust, put out, run off, see off, send away, send out, send packing, shoot out, spurn, throw out, thrust out, turf out, turn away, turn out), излагам (bring on reproach, display, enunciate, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay out, propound, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, set up, show, show off, sink, state, subject, ventilate), правя (act, advance, contract, deliver, do, drive, enounce, gargle, leave, make, pay, pull, put forward, put out, run off, strike, transact), разпръсквам (bestride, disject, distribute, intersperse, spread, whiffle), усуквам (convolve, equivocate, palter, strand, tergiversate, throw, twist), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), светски (earthbound, earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, material, mundane, profane, secular, smart, social, society, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), сношавам се с, снасяне на яйца, снасям (deposit, produce), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put on, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), релеф (relief, relievo), начин по който е усукано, разсейвам (dispel, disperse, dissipate, distract, illumine, put off, quell, resolve, satisfy, scatter), начертавам (line, protract, rule, run, trace), разположение (collocation, disposal, disposition, emplacement, liking, mood, placement, situation, tune), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), трасирам (trace), кратка лирична песен, оставам за хоризонта, обвинявам (accuse, arraign, charge, impeach, taunt), обзалагам се (bet, wager), определям (allot, allow, assign, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, qualify, set down, settle, spot, state), стъквам (make up, mend), редя. (various references)

Catalan

ficar (lay down, place, put, put down). (various references)

Chinese 

铺砌 (laid, laid-off, laying, lay-up), 產卵 , 安放 (place, put in a certain place). (various references)

Czech

zaplašit (allay, banish, dispel, quell, quieten, scare away, shoo, still), vymyslet (conceive, concoct, conjure, devise, invent), uvalit (inflict), stanovit (assess, define, determine, fix, lay down, name, ordain, rule, set down, specify, will), položit (lay down, pose, prostrate, put, put down, repose, set, superimpose), nanášet (apply), klást (pose, put), dát (belt, give, hand, impart, issue, lower, put, score, set, set by, to give). (various references)

Danish

lægge (lay down, place, put, put down). (various references)

Dutch

neerleggen (abdicate, resign), leggen (lay down, locate, place, put, put down). (various references)

Esperanto

laika, kuŝigi. (various references)

Faeroese

leggja (lay down, place, put, put down), ólærdur. (various references)

Farsi 

ناویژه کار (Layman), گذاردن (Imprint, Invest, Pose, Repose, Set), غیرروحانی (Secular), تخم گذاردن , خارج ازسلک روحانیت , اهنگ ملودی , الحان , دفن کردن (Bury, Grave, Sepulcher), داستان منظوم . (various references)

Finnish

luha (lathe, sley), laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, let, let down, let go, lower, reckon, set, work out), punos (cord, twine, twist), punonta (braiding), punoa (interlace, intertwine, twine, twist), pinnankarheuden yleissuunta, panna (ban, cause, excommunication, get, lay down, make, place, put, put down, set), maallikko (layman), kattaa (cover, roof), köyden kierre, balladi (ballad), asettaa (instal ... in office, place, put, reinstate in one's post, set). (various references)

French

pondre (lay an egg), laïque (laic). (various references)

Frisian

lizze (lay down, lie, place, put, put down, recline, to lie). (