laith

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English

Etymology

From Middle English lathe, from Old English hladan or Old English hleadan, or from or potentially reinforced by Old Norse hlaða (“barn, storehouse”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ (“loader”), from *hlaþaną (“to lade, load”). Cognate with Icelandic hlaða (“barn”), Swedish lada (“barn”), Danish lade (“barn”).

Noun

laith (plural laiths)

  1. (dialectal, rare, Northern England) shed, barn
    • 1847 December, Ellis Bell , chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: , volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, , →OCLC:
      “What are ye for?” he shouted. “T’ maister’s down i’ t’ fowld. Go round by th’ end o’ t’ laith, if ye went to spake to him.”
    • 2000, Eileen White, editor, Feeding a City: York: The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 135:
      Six quarters of wheat were held at Thomas Roger's house, and in laiths outside Bootham and Micklegate Bar he had store of wheat, rye, barley, beans and peas, totalling £21 6s 8d which represented about a quarter of his assets.

Anagrams

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *latis (“alcoholic beverage”).

Noun

laith f (genitive latha)

  1. ale, liquor
Declension
Feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative laith — —
vocative laith — —
accusative laithN — —
genitive lathoH, lathaH — —
dative laithL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
  • Irish: laith
  • Scottish Gaelic: laith

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

laith

  1. alternative spelling of ḟlaith: lenited form of flaith

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English lōth, from Old English lāþ, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyt-.

Pronunciation

Verb

laith

  1. to loathe, detest

Adjective

laith (comparative mair laith, superlative maist laith)

  1. loath

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

Adjective

laith

  1. soft mutation of llaith

Mutation

Mutated forms of llaith
radical soft nasal aspirate
llaith laith unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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