different between lege vs lee

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?d?/

Etymology 1

Noun

lege (uncountable)

1. (US, colloquial) Clipping of legislature.

Etymology 2

Abbreviated from allege (“to assert”).

Verb

lege (third-person singular simple present leges, present participle leging, simple past and past participle leged)

1. (obsolete) To allege; to assert.
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms

     Not onely he legeth his mercy to bynde his reason, but also his wysdome.

   • c. 1360, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love

     To reson faste, and ledge auctoritie.

Etymology 3

Clipping of legend.

Alternative forms

• leg

Noun

lege (uncountable)

1. (Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.

Anagrams

• Egle, glee

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laj?/, [?l???]
• Homophone: leje

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leika, from Proto-Germanic *laikan? (“to jump, play”), cognate with Norwegian leike, leke, Swedish leka, Gothic ???????????????????????? (laikan).

Verb

lege (past tense legede, past participle leget)

1. to play
2. to spawn

Inflection

Usage notes

In compounds: "lege-".

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lege c

1. indefinite plural of leg

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???

Verb

lege

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of legen

Anagrams

• egel, geel, gele, leeg

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lege

1. inflection of legen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Interlingua

Noun

lege (plural leges)

1. law

Verb

lege

1. present of leger
2. imperative of leger

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lege m (plural leges)

1. law

Related terms

• leal

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le.?e/, [??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.d??e/, [?l??d???]

Verb

lege

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.?e/, [???e???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.d??e/, [?l??d???]

Noun

l?ge

1. ablative singular of l?x

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin leuca, leuga, from Proto-Celtic *lewg?.

Alternative forms

• leege, liege, lewke, leuge, leke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???(?)/, /?l?u??(?)/, /?l??k(?)/

Noun

lege (plural leges)

2. league (unit of meaurement)

Descendants

• English: league

References

• “l?ge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lige, liege; further etymology is disputed.

Alternative forms

• liege, leege, lyge, liage, legi, lyege, legge, leyge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?d?(?)/, /?li?d?(?)/

Noun

lege (plural leges or lege)

2. (One of) one's subjects or vassals; (one of) those under one's control.
3. A hireling or servant; one who is in another's service.
4. (rare) One's feudal overlords or superiors.

Related terms

• lege man
• ligeaunce

Descendants

• English: liege
• Scots: liege

References

• “l?ge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Adjective

lege

1. Being able to command obedience from one's inferiors.
2. Tied by pledge to obey one's superiors; being subjected by an authority to duty.
3. (rare) Otherwise bound by feudal obligations.

Descendants

• English: liege

References

• “l???e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish læge

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /le????/

Noun

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural leger, definite plural legene)

1. a doctor

Synonyms

• doktor

Verb

lege (imperative leg, present tense leger, passive leges, simple past lega or leget or legte, past participle lega or leget or legt, present participle legende)

1. to heal, cure

Related terms

lækje (Bokmål)

Derived terms

References

• “lege” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Danish læge. Confer also lækjar, which is borrowed from Swedish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

lege m (definite singular legen, indefinite plural legar, definite plural legane)

1. doctor (physician)

   Synonyms: dokter, lækjar

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lega.

Alternative forms

• lega, lego, legu, logo, lugu (all superseded and/or dialectal)

Noun

lege f (definite singular lega, indefinite plural leger, definite plural legene)

1. the act of lying (resting in a horizontal position)
2. a place where something lies, e.g. an animal

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Participle

lege

1. neuter singular of legen

Verb

lege

1. supine of liggje
2. supine of ligge

References

• “lege” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German legen, Dutch leggen, English lay.

Verb

lege

1. to lay
2. to put, to place

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?led??e/

Etymology 1

From Latin l?gem, accusative of l?x, from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s, from *le?- (“to gather”).

Noun

lege f (plural legi)

1. law
2. (archaic) religion, belief (in God or a divinity), credence

Declension

Synonyms

• (belief): religie, credin??

Related terms

• legal
• legitim

Etymology 2

Verb

lege

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hl?o, hl?ow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin cal?re (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit ???? (?arad, “autumn”)).

Noun

lee (plural lees)

1. (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • We lurked under lee.

   • 1873, John Tyndall, "Niagara", in Fragments of Science (1907), page 182

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

Antonyms

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

Derived terms

• alee
• leeward
• leeway

Translations

Adjective

lee (not comparable)

1. (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

Etymology 2

Noun

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.

Further reading

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• lee at OneLook Dictionary Search
• lee in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ELE, eel

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?/

Noun

lée f 

1. water

References

• Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99
• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar?^[3], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5

Belizean Creole

Adjective

lee

1. little

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?/, [?le??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: lee

Noun

lee

1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

Derived terms

• leenpuoleinen

Anagrams

• ele

Luxembourgish

Verb

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee

1. To lie; to speak falsely.

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Northern Sotho

Noun

lee

1. egg

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ledd.

Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

References

• “lee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lee” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative le)

1. Alternative form of lea

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee (third-person singular present lees, present participle leein, past leet, past participle leet)

1. To lie (tell lies).

Spanish

Verb

lee

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of leer.

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.?/

Noun

lee 5 (plural mae)

1. egg

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, from Old English li??an, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Verb

lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth)

1. to lie, lay

Etymology 2

Verb

lee

1. Alternative form of laave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN