different between lea vs leagure
lea
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li?/, /le?/
- Rhymes: -i?, -e?
- Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh
Etymology 1
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English l?ah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
Akin to Old Frisian l?ch (“meadow”), Old Saxon l?h (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German l?h (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse l? (“clearing, meadow”).
Alternative forms
- leigh, ley, lay
Noun
lea (plural leas)
- An open field, meadow.
- 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
- The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
- The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
- And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
- XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
- Two children in two neighbor villages
- Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
- 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Derived terms
- Lea Green
- Lea Hall
- Lea Marston
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).
Noun
lea (plural leas)
- Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards.
- Synonym: lay
- A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Anagrams
- E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale
Galician
Verb
lea
- first-person singular present subjunctive of ler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of ler
Noun
lea f (plural leas)
- fight, quarrel
Synonyms
- liorta
- briga
- lida
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?le.a/, [???eä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?le.a/, [?l???]
Noun
lea f (genitive leae); first declension
- (poetic) a lioness
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
- leaena
Related terms
- le? m
References
- lea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- lea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- lea in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?lea?/
Verb
lea
- third-person singular present indicative of leat
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lea
- simple past and past participle of lee
Alternative forms
- leet
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.
Alternative forms
- lee (with e infinitive)
- leda, lede
Verb
lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative le)
- (transitive) to wiggle, move
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
lea n
- definite plural of le
References
- “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- ale, ela
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [le?a]
Verb
lea
- third-person singular present subjunctive of la
- third-person plural present subjunctive of la
Spanish
Verb
lea
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of leer.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of leer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of leer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of leer.
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-lea (infinitive kulea)
- to raise a child, to rear
- to care for something (attend to the needs of)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- Verbal derivations:
- Passive: -lelewa (“to be raised”)
Tongan
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.a/
Noun
lea
- language; speech
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lè??]
- Rhymes: -è?ð?
- (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -è?r?, -è?ð?
Etymology 1
From le (“joint, limb.”)
Verb
lea
- wiggle
Derived terms
- leamån
Etymology 2
Noun
lea
- nominative/accusative masculine plural of le
Yola
Verb
lea
- Alternative form of laave
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