different between leigh vs neigh

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)

1. (archaic) A meadow.

Manx

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l?i]

Noun

leigh f (genitive singular leigh, plural leighaghyn or leighyn)

1. law

Derived terms

• fo-leigh
• leighder

Middle English

Verb

leigh

1. Alternative form of laughen

Yola

Verb

leigh

1. Alternative form of leiough

English

Etymology

From Middle English neighen, from Old English hn??an, from Proto-Germanic *hnajj?n? (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?, IPA^(key): /ne?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: nay, nee, Neagh

Noun

neigh (plural neighs)

1. The cry of a horse.

Translations

Verb

neigh (third-person singular simple present neighs, present participle neighing, simple past and past participle neighed)

1. (of a horse) To make its cry.
2. To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.
3. (obsolete) To scoff or sneer.

   • Yes, yes, 'tis he. I will assure you Uncle, the very he, the he your Wisdom plaid withal, I thank you for't, neighed at his Nakedness, and made his Cold and Poverty your Pastime; […]

Translations

See also

• whinny
• nicker

Anagrams

• ehing, hinge