laith

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”).

laith (plural laiths)

1. (dialectal, rare, Northern England) shed, barn
   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     “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.”

   • 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:

     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.

• thali, Litha, Lahti, lathi, tahil, thial, Thali, tahli

• IPA^(key): [laθʲ]

From Proto-Celtic *latis (“alcoholic beverage”).

laith f (genitive latha)

1. ale, liquor

• Irish: laith
• Scottish Gaelic: laith

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 laith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

laith

1. alternative spelling of ḟlaith: lenited form of flaith

From Middle English lōth, from Old English lāþ, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyt-.

• (verb): IPA^(key): /leð/
• (adjective): IPA^(key): /leθ/

laith

1. to loathe, detest

laith (comparative mair laith, superlative maist laith)

1. loath

• laithsome

• IPA^(key): /lai̯θ/

laith

1. soft mutation of llaith