lee
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /liː/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iː
- Homophones: le, lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).
Noun edit
lee (plural lees)
- (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
- (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
- A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
- the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- We lurked under lee.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1873, John Tyndall, “Niagara”, in Fragments of Science, published 1907, page 182:
- Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.
- Calm, peace.
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Adjective edit
lee (not comparable)
- (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
- lee side, lee shore, lee helm
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
lee (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
- 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or The Man of the World Answered. In which are Considered, the Love of This Life; the Ambition and Pleasure, with the Wit and Wisdom, of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 264:
- A thousand demons lurk within the lee.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
lee (plural lees)
- Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).
- 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, page 184:
- Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]
Further reading edit
- Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “lee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “lee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
See also edit
- on one's lee-lane (probably etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Afar edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lée f (plural lelwá f)
Declension edit
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References edit
- Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar[1], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “lee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usage example lee fax-te "the water boiled"
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99
Belizean Creole edit
Adjective edit
lee
References edit
- Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lee
- (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
- (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)
- saaren lee ― lee of an island
Declension edit
Inflection of lee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | lee | leet | ||
genitive | leen | leiden leitten | ||
partitive | leetä | leitä | ||
illative | leehen | leihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | lee | leet | ||
accusative | nom. | lee | leet | |
gen. | leen | |||
genitive | leen | leiden leitten | ||
partitive | leetä | leitä | ||
inessive | leessä | leissä | ||
elative | leestä | leistä | ||
illative | leehen | leihin | ||
adessive | leellä | leillä | ||
ablative | leeltä | leiltä | ||
allative | leelle | leille | ||
essive | leenä | leinä | ||
translative | leeksi | leiksi | ||
abessive | leettä | leittä | ||
instructive | — | lein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
- (side of ship): suojanpuoli
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Galician edit
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lee
- inflection of lear:
Luxembourgish edit
Verb edit
lee
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English lēogan.
Verb edit
lee
- To lie; to speak falsely.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Northern Sotho edit
Noun edit
lee
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From ledd.
Verb edit
lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)
- to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lee/le)
- Alternative form of lea
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
- leh (Dundee)
Etymology edit
From Old English lēogan.
Verb edit
lee (third-person singular simple present lees, present participle leein, simple past leet, past participle leet)
- To lie (tell lies).
- 1876, S[arah] R. Whitehead, “On the Wrong Coach”, in Daft Davie and Other Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 220:
- ‘It’s a lee,’ says the man; ‘she’s either drunk or daft.’ / ‘Me drunk, you ill-tongued vagabond!’ says my Auntie Kirsty, who couldna bear such a reproach on her good name, ‘I’m a’ but blackfasting this day from either meat or drink; you had better no meddle wi’ my character.’
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Spanish edit
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lee
- inflection of leer:
Tswana edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lee class 5 (plural mae)
Yola edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth, simple past lidg'd)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
lee
- Alternative form of laave (“leave”)
References edit
- 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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