different between lads vs gads

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lædz/
• Rhymes: -ædz

Noun

lads

1. plural of lad
2. (Northern England, Tyneside, Ireland) A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
   • 1998, Tom Stoppard. The Real Inspector Hound

     Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class family entertainment.

   • 2000, Marie Jones. Stones In His Pockets

     I loved saying lads . . . like I was a comrade . . . like I was one of them ... me and the lads . . . alright lads, eh ... Italy, no problem .

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• ADLs, ADSL, ALDS, DALs, LDAs, dals

Danish

Noun

lads n

1. indefinite genitive singular of lad
2. indefinite genitive plural of lad

Latgalian

Noun

lads m

1. ice

English

Noun

gads

1. plural of gad

Verb

gads

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gad

Anagrams

• S.D. Ga., dags

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *gad-, from Proto-Indo-European *g?od-, o-grade of *g?ed- (“to unify, to match”) (whence also gad?ties, q.v.). The semantic evolution of the term probably went from “matching, appropriate” > “appropriate, determined, specific time (period)” > “(church) holiday” > “sequence of church holidays in a year” > “year”. Since this evolution parallels that of Russian ??? (god), there may also have been Russian influence on the meaning changes of Latvian gads. Cognates include Lithuanian gadýn? (“time, period”) (< Belarusian ???????? (hadzína)), Old Church Slavonic ???? (god?, “suitable time, holiday, year”), Russian, Belarusian ??? (god, “year”), Upper Sorbian hod, hody (“winter holidays”), Czech hod (“church holiday”), Polish gody (“wedding feast, wedding”), Serbo-Croatian g?d (“name day, important holiday”).

Noun

gads m (1st declension)

1. year

Declension

Derived terms

• gadsimts
• n?kamgad, n?košgad, šogad, togad

References

Scots

Interjection

gads

1. Expression of disgust