OriginFrom a merger of two verbs:
* Old Frisian lidzia (“to lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan
* Old Frisian lidza, ledza (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan
Both derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
- to lay
- to be (used to describe locations of things and places)
Formslizze(infinitive) · lis(imperative) · lis(error-unrecognized-form, present, singular) · lei(error-unrecognized-form, past, singular) · leist(error-unrecognized-form, present, singular) · leist(error-unrecognized-form, past, singular) · leit(error-unrecognized-form, present, singular) · lizze(plural, present) · leinen(past, plural) · lizzend(participle, present) · lizzende(participle, present) · lein(participle, past) · -(auxiliary, present) · hawwe(auxiliary, past)
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