different between lass vs jass

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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jas/

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. (card games) A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
   • 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:

     A Swiss jass master and I teamed up against my wife and an American, who were both rank beginners.

   • 2010, Diccon Bewes, Swiss Watching, p. 244:

     Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.

   • 2014, Donal McLaughlin, translating Arno Camenisch, Behind the Station:

     When Nonna plays cards, she moves her teeth from side to side. It makes a bit of a racket. It distracts the other jass players – that's why Nonna's so good at jass.

Further reading

• jass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• An explanation of the card game's rules

Etymology 2

Obsolete and variant forms.

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of jazz
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 417:

     “Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays—the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain.”

     “Sure,” agreed “Dope,” “but you can't call that organization.”

     “What do you call it?”

     “Jass.”

Icelandic

Noun

jass m (genitive singular jass, no plural)

1. Alternative form of djass

Declension