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From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).
lea (plural leas)
- An open field, meadow, pasture.
- 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
- Two children in two neighbor villages
- Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
- 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
open field, meadow, pasture
- Bulgarian: ливада (bg) f (livada)
- Czech: louka (cs) f
- Finnish: niitty (fi)
- French: prairie (fr) f
- Galician: campo (gl) m, campa (gl) f
- Hebrew: אָחוּ (he) m ('ɑħu)
- Hungarian: rét (hu), mező (hu), gyep (hu), legelő (hu)
- Latin: prātum n
- Persian: راود (fa) (râvad)
- Polish: błonie (pl) n
- Portuguese: campo (pt) m
- Romanian: pășune (ro) f, pajiște (ro) f
- Russian: луг (ru) m (lug)
- Scottish Gaelic: bàn-talamh m
- Spanish: campo (es)
- Ukrainian: луг m (luh)
From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).
lea (plural leas)
lea gender-neutral (plural les)
lea gender-neutral (plural les)
lea
lea f (plural leas)
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛːä]
lea f (genitive leae); first declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | lea | leae |
Genitive | leae | leārum |
Dative | leae | leīs |
Accusative | leam | leās |
Ablative | leā | leīs |
Vocative | lea | leae |
- leō m
- “lea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
lea
lea
- simple past and past participle of lee
From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.
lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lea/le)
- (transitive) to wiggle, move
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
lea n
- “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
lea
lea
- (intransitive) to be ripe
- Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “lea”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department
lea
- inflection of leer:
-lea (infinitive kulea)
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. |
- Nominal derivations:
- ulezi (“upbringing”)
Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).
lea
lea
- Alternative form of laave
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:
An lea a pariesh o Kilmannan.
- And leave the parish of Kilmannan.
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52