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ley

See also: Ley and leþ

Translingual

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ley

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lemolang.

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English

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Etymology 1

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See lea.

Noun

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ley (plural leys)

  1. (agriculture) Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. A ley line.
    • 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:
      For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
  3. Alternative spelling of lea.
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Adjective

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ley (not comparable)

  1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
  2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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ley

  1. Archaic form of lye.

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Noun

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ley

  1. (obsolete) Law.

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Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish ley.

Noun

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ley

  1. law

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Preposition

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ley

  1. (Maasina) in
    A ɗuunnii sukkara ley cafe ɗe.
    You put too much sugar in the coffee.
    O tummbeke ley akalawal mobel am.
    He got into the back of my truck.
    Taa ŋawlunduree ley suudu ga, njehee sella.
    Don't wrestle in the house, go outside.
  2. under

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Ladino

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish ley, from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

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ley f (Hebrew spelling ליי)[1]

  1. (law) law
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎[1], volumes 26–28, page 71:
      Ya meldatesh por seguro en las gazetas ke el governo esta aparejando una ley grasias a la kuala no va aver mas estos terribles "bekchis" vinidos espesilamente de Anadol i los kualos kon sus espavoresientes sopas azian tanto espantar a todos akeyos ke tienen el koraje de durmir repozados en sus lechos.
      Now you certainly read in the papers that the government is preparing a law thanks to whoever is no longer having more [of] these terrible ‘guards’, especially from Anadol, coming with their frightening clubs, terrifying everybody who has the courage the sleep soundly in bed.

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  1. ^ “ley”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Middle English

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Noun

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ley

  1. alternative form of leye (“clearing”)

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

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ley f

  1. (law) law
  2. (religion) commandment; law
  3. (religion) religion; faith

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  • Galician: lei
  • Portuguese: lei

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Old Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx. Compare Old French lei, loi.

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ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)

  1. law

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Old Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

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ley f

  1. (law) law
  2. (religion) commandment; law
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r.:
      […] ⁊ uinierõ ⁊ fraguarõ la caſa ⁊ fizierõ ẏ altar. ⁊ ofreçierõ ſo olocauſt. como es eſc̃pto en la ley demoẏſen. uarõ de dios
      And they came and set the house and made an altar there. And they offered their burnt offering according to what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

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  • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “ley”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 304

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Noun

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ley f (plural leys)

  1. obsolete spelling of lei

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish ley, from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlei/ [ˈlei̯]
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  • Rhymes: -ei
  • Syllabification: ley

Noun

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ley f (plural leyes)

  1. law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
  2. law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
  3. (law) law (particular piece of legislation)
  4. (religion) religion; credence; worship of a god

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