lech

See also: Lech, -lech, lệch, and ḻec̱h

English

Etymology 1

Backformation from lecher

Alternative forms

• letch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛtʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Noun

lech (plural leches)

1. (slang) A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
2. (slang) A lecher.

Verb

lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)

1. (slang) To behave lecherously

Etymology 2

Welsh llech (“slate, slab”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

lech (plural lechs)

1. The capstone of a cromlech.

Anagrams

• Chel, HELC

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Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [let͡ʃ]

Noun

lech f (usually uncountable)

1. Apocopic form of leche, milk
   • c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.

     […] e di apparecim ati. por enpararle de mano de los egipcios. por ſacarlo deſta tiera. E leuarlo ala tierra buena ¬ ampla. Q´ mana lech. ¬ miel. […]

     “ […] And say, ‘I have appeared to you to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians [and] to bring them out of that land and take them to the land good and broad that flows with milk and honey.’ […] ”

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːχ/

Noun

lech

1. Soft mutation of llech (“slate”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llech	lech	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.