Noun: laith
| Singular | laith |
| Plural | laiths |
Sample Sentences
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“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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like laith
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
lathe', Old English Nouns '
hladan', Old English Nouns '
hleadan', Old Norse Nouns '
hlaða', Icelandic Nouns '
hlaða', Swedish Nouns '
lada', Danish Nouns '
lade'.