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LastEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a cobbler, from last (“a tool for shaping shoes”). Compare Laster. * Also as an English surname, from the adjective last. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Last, an occupational surname for a porter (see the German entry below).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗lastEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest, both ultimately from Old English latost. Doublet of latest.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗lastEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English lasten, from Old English lǣstan, from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan, from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną. Cognate with German leisten (“yield”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗lastEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
The noun is derived from Middle English lest, leste (“shoemaker’s model shaped like a foot, last”), from Old English lǣste (“shoemaker‘s last”), from Proto-Germanic *laistiz, from *laisǭ (“track, trail”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-eh₂-, from *leys- (“to trace; to track”). Doublet of learn and lore. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Dutch leest * German Leisten * Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”) * Swedish läst
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗lastEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Middle English last, from Old English hlæst (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”). Cognate with West Frisian lêst, Dutch last, German Last, Swedish last, Icelandic lest.
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1908- LastEnglish · e-38538-7062
Last, last, n. a wooden mould of the foot on which boots and shoes are made.—v.t. to fit with a last.—n. Last′er, one who fits the parts of shoes to lasts: a tool for doing so. [A.S. lást, a trace.]
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Last, last, v.i. to continue, endure: to escape failure: remain fresh, unimpaired.—adj. Last′ing, permanent, durable.—n. endurance.—adv. Last′ingly.—n. Last′ingness. [A.S. lǽstan, to keep a track. See foregoing word.]
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Last, last, n. a load, cargo, a weight generally estimated at 4000 lb., but varying in different articles.—n. Last′age, the lading of a ship: room for stowing goods in a ship: a duty formerly paid for the right of carryi
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Last, last, adj. latest: coming after all the others: final: next before the present: utmost: meanest: most improbable or unlikely—also adv.—n. Last′-court, a court held by the jurats in the marshes of Kent to fix rates
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