lass

• n. a little lass; a lover; （スコットランドの）家政婦
• n.(Lass)人の名前；（ドイツ語、ロシア語、チェコ語）小娘

語源は不明。

lass

lass: [13] Like its male counterpart lad, lass has an obscure past. The form lasce, recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries, suggests the possibility that it may originally have come from a Scandinavian adjective related to Old Swedish l?sk ‘unmarried’.

lass (n.)

"young woman," c. 1300, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Swedish l?sk kona "unmarried woman," but also perhaps related to Old Norse l?skr "idle, weak," West Frisian lask "light, thin." Liberman suggests Old Danish las "rag." "Slang words for 'rag' sometimes acquire the jocular meaning 'child' and especially 'girl.'" "Used now only of mean girls" [Johnson, who also has lasslorn "forsaken by his mistress"]. Scottish diminutive lassie first recorded 1725.

1. Anne is a Lancashire lass from Longton,near Preston.

アニーはランカシャー郡の娘で、実家はプレストンの近くにあるラントンです。

2. "What is it, lass ?「Finlay cried.

「どういうことだ、女の子？」フィンリーは叫んだ。

3.He was playing the fool with that lass .

彼はあの女の子をからかっている。

4.Alice worked on the farm as a lass .

アリスは農場で女工をしていた。

5.The ogre demanded the annual sacrifice of a young village lass to satisfy his blood lust.

この食人巨妖は村に毎年1人の少女を犠牲にして彼の血欲を満たすように要求している。