Leither

English

Etymology

From Leith +‎ -er.

Noun

Leither (plural Leithers)

1. An inhabitant of Leith.
   • 1986, James Scott Marshall, “The Mediaeval Village”, in The Life and Times of Leith, →ISBN, page 10:

     The magistrates kept insisting that to exercise any trade a Leither must become a burgess of Edinburgh and must reside within the royalty of the city.

   • 2014 September 15, Chitra Ramaswamy, “I’m Indian, English and live in Scotland. Will my son’s identity be as borderless after the referendum?”, in The Guardian‎:

     These days I’m a proud Leither, the republic that, as any Edinburgher knows has, had once long enjoyed its own independence.

   • 2018 November 5, Marianne Taylor, “'The wrong type of development': the battle for Edinburgh's Leith Walk”, in The Guardian‎:

     Among them is Trainspotting author and native Leither Irvine Welsh, who now lives in Chicago.