lech
English
editEtymology 1
editBack-formation from lecher.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /lɛt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Noun
editlech (plural leches)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editVerb
editlech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)
- (slang) To behave lecherously.
Etymology 2
editFrom Welsh llech (“slate, slab”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /lɛk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛk
Noun
editlech (plural lechs)
Anagrams
editOld Czech
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *lęxъ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlech m pers
- chief (leader or co-leader of a tribe)
Declension
editDeclension of lech (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | lech | lechy | leši, lechové |
genitive | lecha | lechú | lechóv |
dative | lechu, lechovi | lechoma | lechóm |
accusative | lecha | lechy | lechy |
vocative | leše | lechy | leši, lechové |
locative | lechu, lechovi | lechú | lešiech |
instrumental | lechem | lechoma | lechy |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Further reading
edit- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “lech”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlech f (usually uncountable)
- 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. Q̃ 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.’ […] ”
- c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.
Welsh
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlech
- soft mutation of llech (“slate”)
Mutation
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