Last

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).

Last (plural Lasts)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Last is the 15922^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1825 individuals. Last is most common among White (92.66%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Last”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 400.

From Middle High German last, from Old High German last, hlast, from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), whence English laden. Compare English last and ballast.

• IPA^(key): /last/

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• Homophone: lasst

Last f (genitive Last, plural Lasten)

1. load, burden
   • 1921, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Trommel, in Weberin Schuld, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18:

     Und sie ging gebückt, als trage sie eine schwere Last, […]

     And she walked bowed as if she carried a heavy load, […]

• Altlast
• Grundlast
• lästig

• belästigen
• laden
• Laden

• “Last” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Last” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Last” in Duden online
• Last on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Last”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891