different between leant vs leat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?nt/
• Homophones: lent, Lent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

leant

1. (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of lean

Anagrams

• Antle, ental, laten

English

Alternative forms

• leet

Etymology

Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ?el?te (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæter?el?t (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *l?t?, *gal?t? (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gil?z (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.

Noun

leat (plural leats)

1. an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace

Translations

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, tael, tale, teal, tela

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?at??/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /l?æt??/

Pronoun

leat (emphatic leatsa)

1. second-person singular of le: with you sg, to you sg

References

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *leat?k.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?lea?h(t)/

Verb

leat

1. to be
2. (possessor in locative case) to have, to possess
3. (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense, together with a past participle.

Usage notes

In the meaning "have", the thing possessed is in the nominative case, while the possessor is in the locative case.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• leahkit

Derived terms

• leahkin
• doppe leat
• leat lohpi

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?to

Noun

leat n (plural leaturi)

1. (dated) year
2. (figuratively) being of the same age
3. (dated) recruit

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• le + tu

Pronoun

leat

1. with you, by you (informal singular)

Derived terms

• leam-leat
• leatsa

See also

• leibh

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)

1. plant shoot

Further reading

• “leat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011