English Explanatory Dictionary

laith

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. shed, barn
name
  1. A male given name from Arabic.
name
  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A female given name transferred from the surname.

Word forms

laith laiths

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”).

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