lass
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English lasse, from Old Norse laskura (“an unmarried woman, maiden”). Cognate with Scots lassie.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /læs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æs
Noun
editlass (plural lasses)
- (archaic in some dialects, informal) A young woman or girl.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl
- Coordinate term: lad
- Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!
- 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
- My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
- (Geordie, Mackem) A sweetheart.
Usage notes
editStill prevalent in Scottish English, Irish English, North East England, Lancashire and Yorkshire. Sometimes used poetically in other dialects of English.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
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References
edit- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- “lass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lass”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
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editGerman
editPronunciation
editVerb
editlass
Further reading
editLuxembourgish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German los, from Old High German *los, variant of lōs (“loose; free; lacking; sly, deceitful”). Compare for the short vowel Ripuarian Central Franconian loss, Dutch los. The uninflected stem of this adjective develops regularly into Luxembourgish lass, while the inflected stem yields the doublet lues (“slow, quiet”). See the English cognate loose for more.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editlass (masculine lassen, neuter lasst, comparative méi lass, superlative am lassten)
Declension
editnumber and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass lass | si ass lass | et ass lass | si si(nn) lass | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | lassen | lass | lasst | lass |
independent without determiner | lasses | lasser | |||
dative | after any declined word | lassen | lasser | lassen | lassen |
as first declined word | lassem | lassem |
Derived terms
editPolish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlass n
Swedish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Swedish las. Originally the past participle of a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”). Doublet of lada and last.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlass n
- a load (amount transported at one time (on a cart, (open) trailer, or the like, or carried), also as an (informal) unit of measurement)
- ett lass ved
- a/one load of firewood
- a load (large amount)
- glass i stora lass
- loads of ice cream [ice cream in big loads]
Usage notes
editPossibly also including the conveyance itself intuitively, like in the second image.
Declension
editDeclension of lass | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lass | lasset | lass | lassen |
Genitive | lass | lassets | lass | lassens |
Derived terms
edit- dra det tyngsta lasset (“carry the main burden; do the heavy lifting [pull the heaviest load]”)
- flyttlass
- liten tuva stjälper ofta stort lass
Related terms
editReferences
edit- lass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- lass in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- lass in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- lass in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Yola
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English los, from Old English los.
Noun
editlass
Etymology 2
editNoun
editlass
- Alternative form of lhose
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
- Th' valler w'speen here, th' lass ee chourch-hey.
- The more we spend here, the less in the churchyard.
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52
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