Also flaith. Irish Hist. [Irish.] A lord (see quots.).
1873. W. K. Sullivan, Introd. O’Curry’s Anc. Irish, I. 101. The first class [of Aires] were the true lords or Flaths, the Hlaford of the Anglo-Saxons, and the Wlad of the Slavonians. Ibid. (1876), in Encycl. Brit., V. 799. An aire whose family held the same land for three generations was called a flaith or lord.
