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lass

See also: laß and låss

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English lasse, from Old Norse laskura (“an unmarried woman, maiden”). Cognate with Scots lassie.

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Noun

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lass (plural lasses)

  1. (archaic in some dialects, informal) A young woman or girl.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl
    Coordinate term: lad
    Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!
    • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
      My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
  2. (Geordie, Mackem) A sweetheart.

Usage notes

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Still prevalent in Scottish English, Irish English, North East England, Lancashire and Yorkshire. Sometimes used poetically in other dialects of English.

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Translations

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sweetheart — see sweetheart

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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lass

  1. singular imperative of lassen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lassen

Further reading

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  • “lass” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “lass” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Middle High German lōs, 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.

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Adjective

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lass (masculine lassen, neuter lasst, comparative méi lass, superlative am lassten)

  1. loose, unattached

Declension

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declension of lass
number and gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative hien ass lass si ass lass et ass lass si si(nn) lass
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner lassen lass lasst lass
independent without determiner lasses lasser
dative after any declined word lassen lasser lassen lassen
as first declined word lassem lassem

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lass/
  • Rhymes: -ass
  • Syllabification: lass

Noun

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lass n

  1. genitive plural of lasso

Swedish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Swedish las. Originally the past participle of a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”). Doublet of lada and last.

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Noun

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lass n

  1. load

Declension

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Declension of lass 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lass lasset lass lassen
Genitive lass lassets lass lassens

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Yola

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English los, from Old English los.

Noun

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lass

  1. loss

Etymology 2

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Noun

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lass

  1. Alternative form of lhose
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
      Th' valler w'speen here, th' lass ee chourch-hey.
      The more we spend here, the less in the churchyard.

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  • 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
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