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leigh
English
Alternative forms
- lea, ley
- (in personal and place names) -leigh, -ley, -ly
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophones: lea, Lea, Lee, Leigh, li, Li, Lie
Etymology
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English l?ah (“clearing in a forest”) 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 (“used in placenames”)), Old High German l?h (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse l? (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.
Noun
leigh (plural leighs)
- (archaic) A meadow.
Manx
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [l?i]
Noun
leigh f (genitive singular leigh, plural leighaghyn or leighyn)
- law
Derived terms
- fo-leigh
- leighder
Middle English
Verb
leigh
- Alternative form of laughen
Yola
Verb
leigh
- Alternative form of leiough
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lee
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)
- (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
- (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
- 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)
- (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
- lee side, lee shore, lee helm
Etymology 2
Noun
lee (uncountable)
- (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
- 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
- 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
- (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
- (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)
Declension
Synonyms
- (side of ship): suojanpuoli
Derived terms
- leenpuoleinen
Anagrams
- ele
Luxembourgish
Verb
lee
- second-person singular imperative of leeën
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English l?ogan
Verb
lee
- To lie; to speak falsely.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Northern Sotho
Noun
lee
- egg
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From ledd.
Verb
lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)
- 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)
- 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)
- To lie (tell lies).
Spanish
Verb
lee
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of leer.
Tswana
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.?/
Noun
lee 5 (plural mae)
- 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)
- to lie, lay
Etymology 2
Verb
lee
- 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
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