different between lath vs rath

English

Alternative forms

• lat, latt (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from Old English lætt (“lath”), from Proto-Germanic *latt?, *laþþ? (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

lath (plural laths)

1. A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].

   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 21:

     Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.

   Synonym: lath strap

Holonyms

• lattice

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

lath (third-person singular simple present laths, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

1. to cover or line with laths

Anagrams

• halt, thal

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -???, Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: wrath (some dialects)

Noun

rath (plural raths)

1. (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
   • 1907, James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern:

     There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 1:

     Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi ?? (rath), from Sanskrit ?? (ratha).

Noun

rath (plural raths)

1. A Burmese carriage of state.

Etymology 3

Adjective

rath (comparative more rath, superlative most rath)

1. Alternative form of rathe.

Anagrams

• Arth, HART, Hart, Thar, hart, tahr, thar

Cornish

Noun

rath f (plural rathes)

1. rat

Synonyms

• (Revived Late Cornish) logojen vroas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rath (“grace, virtue”), from Proto-Celtic *?ratom (“grace, virtue, good fortune”), from the root *?ar- (“bestow”) (whence Old Irish ernaid, from Proto-Indo-European *perh?- (“bestow, give”) (whence also Sanskrit ?????? (p????ti, “grant, bestow”), Latin par? (“prepare”)).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /???h/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /??a/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /??ah/

Noun

rath m (genitive singular ratha)

1. (literary) bestowal, grant; grace, favour; gift, bounty
2. prosperity
3. abundance
4. usefulness, good

Declension

Derived terms

• anrath (“ill-luck”)

Further reading

• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “far-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 122
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) , “frato-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 140
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 rath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “ra?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "rath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “prosperity” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “success” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• rað

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raþ? (“wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/

Noun

rath n

1. wheel

Declension