laith

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noun

shed, barn

OriginMiddle English lathe ← Old English hladan ← Old Norse hlaða →
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Meanings

laith1

nounlaith (plural laiths)

plural laiths

  1. Northern Englanddialectalrareshed, 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
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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

Laith2

proper noun
  1. A male given name from Arabic.

Laith3

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

Origin

laith · noun

  1. Proto-Germanic*hlaþǭ“loader”
  2. Old Norsehlaða“barn, storehouse”
  3. Old Englishhleadan
  4. Old Englishhladan
  5. Middle Englishlathe
  6. Englishlaith

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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Laith · proper noun

  1. Arabicلَيْث
  2. EnglishLaith

Borrowed from Arabic لَيْث (layṯ).

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Laith · proper noun

  1. Scottish Gaeliclaith
  2. EnglishLaith

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic laith.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

LahtithalilathiLithathialtahliIhlat
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APA

laith. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laith

MLA

“laith.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laith. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laith,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laith.

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