lass

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English las, lasce, lasse (“female infant or child; young woman”), traditionally derived from Old Norse lǫskr (“unmarried”, adjective); see Middle English las for more. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /læs/ Rhymes: -æs === Noun === lass (plural lasses) (archaic except UK, dialectal, informal or poetic) A girl; also (by extension), a young woman. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl, Thesaurus:woman Coordinate term: lad (specifically) A female member of the Salvation Army; a hallelujah lass. (especially Geordie, Wearside) A sweetheart. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sweetheart Coordinate term: lad (Northern England, Scotland) A female servant; a maid, a maidservant. (Scotland, familiar) A term of address for a woman, or a female animal. ==== Usage notes ==== The word is still prevalent in parts of England (chiefly Lancashire, the Northeast, and Yorkshire), and in Ireland and Scotland. It is also sometimes used poetically in other dialects of English. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === lass (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “Lass”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[2], archived from the original on 5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC. “lass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “lass”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[3], archived from the original on 5 September 2024. Frank Graham, editor (1987), “LASS”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN, page 31. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “lass”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. “lass, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC. Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “lass”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN, page 96, column 1. === Anagrams === ALSs, SALs, SLAs, SALS, SASL, sals, SLSA, sALS == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /las/ Rhymes: -as === Verb === lass singular imperative of lassen (colloquial) first-person singular present of lassen === Further reading === “lass”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German) “lass” in Duden online == Luxembourgish == === Etymology === From 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 === IPA(key): /lɑs/ Rhymes: -ɑs === Adjective === lass (masculine lassen, neuter lasst, comparative méi lass, superlative am lassten) loose, unattached ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== lassgoen lassloossen == Polish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlass/ Rhymes: -ass Syllabification: lass === Noun === lass n genitive plural of lasso == Swedish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Swedish las. Originally the past participle of a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”). Doublet of lada and last. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lasː/ === Noun === lass 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) a load (large amount) ==== Usage notes ==== Possibly also including the conveyance itself intuitively, like in the second image. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== 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 ==== lassa === References === “lass”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “lass”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “lass”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) lass in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922) == Yola == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English los, from Old English los. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /las/ ==== Noun ==== lass loss === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== lass alternative form of lhose === References === 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