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laith

laith noun: shed, barn.

Noun

laith (plural laiths)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal, rare) shed, barn
    • “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.”1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
    • 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.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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Laith

Laith

  1. A male given name from Arabic.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Laith

Laith

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A female given name transferred from the surname.

Forms of laith

plurallaiths

Origin of laith

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”).

Borrowed from Arabic لَيْث (layṯ).

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic laith.

Questions about laith

What does laith mean?
Laith means shed, barn.
What part of speech is laith?
Laith can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of laith?
The plural of laith is laiths.

Words near laith in the dictionary

  1. laitakarite
  2. laitance
  3. laitances
  4. laitand
  5. laited
  6. laith
  7. Laithangbam
  8. laithe
  9. laithe house
  10. laithe houses
  11. laithe-house

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