different between lass vs maid

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

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: made

Noun

maid (plural maids)

1. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
   • 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.

   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

Usage notes

Maid, in the sense of a girl or unmarried woman, is often used in the common (species) names of flowering plants.

Synonyms

• (young female person): damsel, maiden
• (female servant): ancilla, handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maiden, maidservant, servingmaid, servingwoman, womanservant
• (female cleaner): chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house), cleaning lady (in a house)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Dima, Madi, aim'd, amid, diam, diam.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English maid, Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).

Noun

maid

1. A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.

Synonyms

• (maid): katabang, muchacha, mutsatsa

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

maid

1. partitive plural of maa

Etymology 2

Noun

maid

1. partitive singular of mai
2. nominative plural of mai

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

1. milk

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?majt/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

maid

1. also, too

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

maid

1. accusative/genitive plural of mii

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mað?/

Verb

·maid

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of maidid

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

1. milk

Inflection

Derived terms

• hapanmaid
• pihtimaid
• rahtmaid
• maidnedal'

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika