lea
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”).
Alternative forms
Noun
lea (plural leas)
- An open field, meadow, pasture.
- 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
- 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
- Two children in two neighbor villages
- Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
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”).
Noun
lea (plural leas)
- Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
- Synonym: rap
- A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Article
lea gender-neutral (plural les)
Pronoun
lea gender-neutral (plural les)
Related terms
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
See also
Galician
Verb
lea
Noun
lea f (plural leas)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛːä]
Noun
lea f (genitive leae); first declension
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 |
Synonyms
Related terms
- leō m
References
- “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
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
Verb
lea
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lea
- simple past and past participle of lee
Alternative forms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.
Alternative forms
Verb
lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lea/le)
- (transitive) to wiggle, move
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
lea n
References
- “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
lēa
- inflection of lēan:
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
lea
Sidamo
Pronunciation
Verb
lea
- (intransitive) to be ripe
References
- Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “lea”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
lea
- inflection of leer:
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-lea (infinitive kulea)
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- Nominal derivations:
- ulezi (“upbringing”)
Tongan
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).
Pronunciation
Noun
lea
Yola
Verb
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.
References
- 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
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