name
Meaning 1
A male given name from Arabic.
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laith
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name
Meaning 2
A surname from Scottish Gaelic
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name
Meaning 3
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
Meaning 4
A female given name transferred from the surname.
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noun
Meaning 5
shed, barn
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Usage: Northern-England, dialectal, rare
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic لَيْث (layṯ).
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic laith.
From Middle English lathe, from Old English hladan or Old English hleadan, or from or potentially reinforced by Old Norse hlaða (“barn, storehouse”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ (“loader”), from *hlaþaną (“to lade, load”). Cognate with Icelandic hlaða (“barn”), Swedish lada (“barn”), Danish lade (“barn”).