Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

offlay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: of-flay
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks."
"That seemed to offlay the sense of "the bastards who did this". Quite often there seemed to me to be a sense of failure to protect one's own from the bastards."
"[…] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay."

Etymology

From off- + lay. Possibly from Middle English oflæien (“to offlay; delay”), from Old English ofleċġan (“to lay down; put away; overlay; cover”), from Proto-Germanic *abalagjaną. Compare also Dutch afleggen, German ablegen.

Origin

Source language: Proto-Germanic

Word Breakdown

Prefix: off
Root: *abalagjaną

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

offlays (present, singular) offlaying (participle, present) offlaid (participle, past) offlaid (past)

Questions

What does offlay mean?: To offset.
Where does offlay come from?: It is traced to Proto-Germanic.

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