different between meadow vs leigh

English

Etymology

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English m?dwe, inflected form of m?d (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *m?dw? (compare West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?met- (“to mow, reap”) (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ?????? (ám?tos, “reaping”)), enlargement of *h?meh?-. More at mow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?do?/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: mead?ow

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

1. A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Synonyms

• lea/leigh

Derived terms

Translations

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