different between lea vs mew

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mju/
• Rhymes: -ju?
• Homophone: mu

Etymology 1

From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English m?w, from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”) (compare West Frisian meau, mieu, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe), from *maiwijan? (“to shout, mew”) (compare Middle English mawen (“to shout, mew”), Middle Dutch mauwen, Middle High German m?wen); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (myjati, “to mew”).

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. (archaic, poetic) A gull, seagull.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     From helm to sea they saw him leap, / As arrow from the string, / And dive into the water deep, / As mew upon the wing.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
2. (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
3. (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
4. (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
   • , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.243:

     A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.

5. (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene 1,^[2]

     More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,

     While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

   • c. 1596, John Donne, “Elegie XX: Loves Warre,” in Charles M. Coffin (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, New York: Modern Library, p. 84,^[3]

     To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall

     Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;

   • 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,^[4]

     […] Nay some have learn’d the trick

     To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,

     Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 5, p. 163,^[5]

     […] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […]

2. (of a bird) To moult.

   The hawk mewed his feathers.

   • 1700, John Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, “Cinyras and Myrrha, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” p. 184,^[6]

     Nine times the moon had mewed her horns […]

3. (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
4. (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.

Derived terms

• mew up

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
2. The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
3. (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.

Translations

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
2. (of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.

Translations

Interjection

mew

1. A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
2. A gull's or buzzard's cry.
3. (archaic) An exclamation of disapproval; boo.

Etymology 4

Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew.

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (slang, neologism) To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits.

References

Anagrams

• MWE, Wem, wem

Middle English

Noun

mew

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?f/

Noun

mew f

1. genitive plural of mewa

Yurok

Noun

mew

1. widower