verb/lɛ.se/
to leave, to leave behind; to forget, to leave alone; to leave with, to give; to let, to allow; to allow oneself, to let oneself
“Laissez le pistolet sur la table” — Leave the gun on the table
Inherited from Middle French laisser, from Old French lesser, lessier, laissier (“to let, let go, leave”), from Latin laxāre (“to relax, loosen”); possibly partly from or influenced by Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, leave”) (German lassen), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan (“to let, leave, leave alone”). More at slack. Conflated also with Old French laiier (“to leave, abandon, allow”) (compare Old Occitan laihar, laiar, Old Northern Italian lagare), also of Germanic origin, from Gothic �