lech
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Etymology 1 edit
Back-formation from lecher.
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lech (plural leches)
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lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)
- (slang) To behave lecherously.
Etymology 2 edit
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lech (plural lechs)
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Old Spanish edit
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lech 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 edit
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lech
- Soft mutation of llech (“slate”).
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |