different between damsel vs lass

English

Alternative forms

• damoiselle, damosel, damozel (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English dameisele, from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, a diminutive from Classical Latin domina (“mistress, lady”), from dominus, from *demh?-. Doublet of demoiselle, doncella, and donzella.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?dæmz?l/

Noun

damsel (plural damsels)

1. A young woman (of noble birth).
2. A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience).
3. A young woman who is not married.
4. An unmarried lady-in-waiting.
5. A chattering damsel (component of a mill).
   • 1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (volume 4, page 263)

     The spout that conveys the grain from the hopper to the eye or centre of the upper millstone rests against the spindle, just at the damsel, and thus receives an alternate back and forward motion, […]

Derived terms

• damsel in distress
• damselfish
• damselfly
• riverdamsel

Translations

Anagrams

• damels, delams, lameds, medals

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

lass (plural lasses)

1. (archaic in some dialects, informal) A young woman or girl.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl

   Coordinate term: lad

2. (Tyneside, Mackem) A sweetheart.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• buffer lass
• hallelujah lass
• lasslorn

Related terms

• lad
• lassie

Translations

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• lass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lass”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]

Anagrams

• SALs, SASL, sals

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /las/
• Rhymes: -as

Verb

lass

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

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German *los, variant of l?s (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/

  Rhymes: -?s

Adjective

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

1. loose, unattached

Declension

Derived terms

• lassgoen
• lassloossen

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English los, from Old English los.

Noun

lass

1. loss

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN