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lai
/laɪ/
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What does lai mean?
noun
- Initialism of leaf area index.
proper noun
- A Tibeto-Burman language of India and Burma.
- A surname from Chinese.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (historical) A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance, with stanzas that do not repeat.
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IPA pronunciation
/laɪ/
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Next morning from the first early call of "Liong tsong khi lai," "All, all, up come," not one word of their native tongue did they speak.
The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a “sirvente” in the language of “oc”, or a “lai” in the language of “oui”, or a “virelai”, or a ballad in the vulgar English.