Etymology

Formed within English on layk (n.) + prefix.

PGmc Ancestor

*laikaz

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

leikr ‘game, play, sport’ 
(ONP leikr (1) (sb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

OE Cognate

lāc 'play, sport'

Phonological and morphological markers

ON /ei/ < PGmc */ai/

Summary category

A1*bc

Attestation

Found only in WA. The simplex occurs in ME from Orrm onwards, primarily N and  E, and elsewhere in alliterative verse (see further Kolb 1965: 131-3, Thorson 35) and in place-names in Cum., see EPNE; see further layk (n.).

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 1861, 3101

Bibliography

MED overleik (n.) , OED3 overlaike (n.) , HTOED ; see further layk (n.).