Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA girl; also (by extension), a young woman. · A female member of the Salvation Army; a hallelujah lass. · A sweetheart. · A female servant; a maid, a maidservant.
From Middle English las, lasce, lasse (“female infant or child; young woman”), traditionally derived from Old Norse lǫskr (“unmarried”, adjective); see Middle English las for more. Cognates Scots lass, lassie
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