different between sleigh vs leigh

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?, IPA^(key): /sle?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: slay

Etymology 1

From Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô.

Noun

sleigh (plural sleighs)

1. A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)

   Santa travels in a sleigh.

Derived terms

• Nantucket sleigh ride
• sleigh bell

Translations

See also

• sled
• sledge
• toboggan

Verb

sleigh (third-person singular simple present sleighs, present participle sleighing, simple past and past participle sleighed)

1. To ride or drive a sleigh.

Derived terms

• sleigher

Etymology 2

Adjective

sleigh (comparative sleigher, superlative sleighest)

1. (obsolete) Sly.

Translations

Further reading

• Sleigh in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• le sigh, leighs

Middle English

Adjective

sleigh

1. Alternative form of sly

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