laiar

• alaiar

Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Perhaps from lais (“song”); the semantic evolution would be "to sing", then "to sing (a sad song)", then "to mourn, to complain".[1]

• IPA^(key): /laˈjaɾ/

laiar (first-person singular present laio, first-person singular preterite laiei, past participle laiado)

1. to wail

   Synonym: lanxir

2. to groan
3. to complain
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Deixame estàr à meu cabo

     layandome do meu mal,

     que abo fèllas farto teño;

     grasias aDeus, que mo dà!

     Dòncheme tànto as sofràxes

     ô Peito, è aínda màis,

     que de dia, nin de nòite

     eu nunca podo acougàr.

     Let me be alone

     complaining about my sickness,

     which, by God, I have more than enough;

     thanks God, who gives that to me!

     My houghs hurt so bad,

     and my chest, and even more,

     that neither day nor night

     can I settle down

• laído
• laio
• salaiar

• “layar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “laiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “laiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “laiar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.