different between lech vs lych

English

Etymology 1

Backformation from lecher

Alternative forms

• letch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

lech (plural leches)

1. (slang) A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
2. (slang) A lecher.

Verb

lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)

1. (slang) To behave lecherously

Etymology 2

Welsh llech (“slate, slab”), from Proto-Celtic *?likk?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

lech (plural lechs)

1. The capstone of a cromlech.

Anagrams

• Chel

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [let??]

Noun

lech f (usually uncountable)

1. Apocopic form of leche, milk
   • c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??/

Noun

lech

1. Soft mutation of llech (“slate”).

Mutation

English

Noun

lych (plural lyches)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of lich
   • 1849, Andrew Trimen, Church and Chapel Architecture, page 114:

     When perfect it comprises a lych path, lych seats, a lych cross, and a lych stone, on which to rest the coffin.

   • 1892, St. C. O'Neill, Devonshire idyls, page 11:

     I'd wish to be a handsome lych, [...] so as not to scare them as come to look at me.