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English

Etymology

From Middle English fleien, from Old English fl?gan.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: fl?, IPA^(key): /fle?/
• Homophone: flay
• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

fley (third-person singular simple present fleys, present participle fleying, simple past and past participle fleyed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To frighten.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be frightened.

Anagrams

• flye, fyle, lyfe

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fley, from Proto-Germanic *flawj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flei?/
• Rhymes: -ei?

Noun

fley n (genitive singular fleys, nominative plural fley)

1. (poetic) ship, boat

Declension

Synonyms

• (ship, boat): bátur, skip, gnoð

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fl?a.

Noun

fley

1. Alternative form of fle

Etymology 2

From Old English fl??e.

Noun

fley

1. Alternative form of flye

Etymology 3

From Old English fl?ogan.

Verb

fley

1. Alternative form of flien

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?/, /li?/
• Rhymes: -e?, -i?

Etymology 1

See lea.

Noun

ley (plural leys)

1. Alternative spelling of lea
2. A ley line.
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Adjective

ley (not comparable)

1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

Etymology 2

Noun

ley

1. Archaic form of lye.

Etymology 3

Noun

ley

1. (obsolete) Law.

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Anagrams

• Ely, lye, yel

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?ah, l?a?e (“a clearing in the woods”).

Noun

ley (plural leys)

1. an open field or meadow

Descendants

• English: ley, lea

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin l?gem, accusative of l?x. Compare Old French lei, loi.

Noun

ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)

1. law

Descendants

• Catalan: llei
• Occitan: lei

Portuguese

Noun

ley f (plural leys)

1. Obsolete spelling of lei

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?gem, singular accusative of l?x (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s, from *le?- (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lei/, [?lei?]

Noun

ley f (plural leyes)

1. law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
2. law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
3. law (particular piece of legislation)
4. religion, credence, worship of a god

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• leal
• legal
• legislar
• legítimo
• lindo

Further reading

• “ley” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.