different between lea vs leva

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)

1. 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;

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)

1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards.

   Synonym: lay

2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Anagrams

• E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale

Galician

Verb

lea

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ler
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of ler

Noun

lea f (plural leas)

1. 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

1. (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

1. third-person singular present indicative of leat

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lea

1. 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)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, move

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lea n

1. definite plural of le

References

• “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ale, ela

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le?a]

Verb

lea

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of la
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of la

Spanish

Verb

lea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of leer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of leer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of leer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of leer.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-lea (infinitive kulea)

1. to raise a child, to rear
2. 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

1. 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

1. wiggle

Derived terms

• leamån

Etymology 2

Noun

lea

1. nominative/accusative masculine plural of le

Yola

Verb

lea

1. Alternative form of laave

English

Noun

leva

1. plural of lev

Anagrams

• Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, lave, vale, veal, vela

French

Verb

leva

1. third-person singular past historic of lever

Anagrams

• lave, lavé

Interlingua

Verb

leva

1. present of levar
2. imperative of levar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.va/
• Rhymes: -?va

Noun

leva f (plural leve)

1. lever
2. (military) call-up, conscription, draft, national service
3. (military, called up soldiers) those called-up, conscripts

Verb

leva

1. third-person singular present indicative of levare
2. second-person singular imperative of levare

Anagrams

• lave, vale, vela

Latin

Verb

lev?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lev?

References

• leva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• leve

Etymology

From Old Norse lifa. Akin to English live

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²le???/

Verb

leva (present tense lever, past tense levde, past participle levt or levd, present participle levande, imperative lev)

1. to live (be alive)

2. to subsist (nourish oneself)

   Pandaen lever av bambus.

   The panda subsists on bamboo.

References

• “leva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse leifa, from Proto-Germanic *laibijan?.

Verb

l?va

1. to leave behind

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: leva (obsolete)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?l?.v?/

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

1. wave (sudden unusually large amount of something)

Verb

leva

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of levar

   Ele leva isso.

   He takes this.

2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of levar

   Tu aí, leva isso sozinho.

   You there, take this by yourself.

Romanian

Etymology

From Bulgarian ???? (leva), plural of ??? (lev, “lion”), from Proto-Slavic *l?v? (“lion”).

Noun

leva f (plural leve)

1. lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin levo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eba

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

1. (military) draft (of troops)
2. (mechanical) cog
3. (mechanical) cam

Swedish

Alternative forms

• lefva

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish liva, from Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Norwegian leve, Danish leve, Icelandic lifa, Dutch leven, German leben and English live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²le?va/

Verb

leva (present lever, preterite levde, supine levt, imperative lev)

1. to live; to be alive

Conjugation

See also

• livs levande
• liv
• länge leve

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish l?va, from Old Norse leifa, from Proto-Germanic *laibijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Icelandic leifa, English leave.

Verb

leva (present lever, preterite levde, supine levt, imperative lev)

1. (obsolete) to leave
   • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Gospel of Matthew, 22:25

   Synonym: lämna

Derived terms

• kvarleva

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

leva

1. indefinite plural of lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Anagrams

• elva, lave, vale, vela