WITNESS / 129
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 129
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
A lexicographic first-use horizon attached to the Old English form, not a directly inspected primary object or proof of coinage.
Old Englishbefore the 12th centuryestablished
lecgan
Merriam-Webster source-reported Old English record
“Old English lecgan; verb use before the twelfth century.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1100
- LOCATOR
- Word History and First Known Use
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERlay ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 551 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lay — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-lay