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Ait vs Lait - What's the difference?

ait | lait |

As a noun ait

is place, area.

As a verb lait is

.

ait

English

Noun

(wikipedia ait) (en noun)
  • An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
  • * R. Hodges (1649)
    • The ait where the osiers grew.
  • * 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
    • Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
  • * 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
    • Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
  • (Scotland) An oat.
    • (Burns)

    Synonyms

    * eyot

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    lait

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lait, layt, leit, leyt, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Lightning; flash of lightning; a flash.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) laiten, leiten, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek; search for; inquire.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) ----