lea
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”).
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Noun edit
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;
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Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
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.
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Article edit
lea gender-neutral (plural les)
Pronoun edit
lea gender-neutral (plural les)
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Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||
Gender neutral5 | iel | lea | ellui | |||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | eux | |
Feminine | elles | elles | ||||
Gender neutral5 | iels | elleux |
- 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.
- 5 Colloquial, and not in popular use.
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Galician edit
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lea
Noun edit
lea f (plural leas)
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛːä]
Noun edit
lea f (genitive leae); first declension
Declension edit
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 edit
Related terms edit
- leō m
References edit
- “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 edit
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lea
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
lea
- simple past and past participle of lee
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.
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Verb edit
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 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
lea n
References edit
- “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Romanian edit
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lea
Sidamo edit
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lea
- (intransitive) to be ripe
References edit
- Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “lea”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department
Spanish edit
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lea
- inflection of leer:
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Verb edit
-lea (infinitive kulea)
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Derived terms edit
Tongan edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lea
Yola edit
Verb edit
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 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