lea

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /leɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
• Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh

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”).

• leigh, ley, lay

lea (plural leas)

1. An open field, meadow.
   • 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;

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”).

lea (plural leas)

1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).

   Synonym: rap

2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

• Ale, E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, ael, ale

Blend of le +‎ la.

• IPA^(key): /lə.a/

lea n (plural les)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) the

lea n (plural les)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) (direct object) them

   Je ne lea vois pas souvent.

   I don't see them often

• iel

lea

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ler
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of ler

lea f (plural leas)

1. fight, quarrel

• liorta
• briga
• lida

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛːä]

lea f (genitive leae); first declension

1. (poetic) a lioness

First-declension noun.

• leaena

• leō m

• “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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlea̯/

lea

1. third-person singular present indicative of leat

lea

1. simple past and past participle of lee

• leet

From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.

• lee (with e infinitive)
• leda, lede

lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lea/le)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, move

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lea n

1. definite plural of le

• “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ale, ela

• IPA^(key): [le̯a]

lea

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of la

• IPA^(key): /ˈlea/
• Hyphenation: le‧a

lea

1. (intransitive) to be ripe

• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “lea”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

• IPA^(key): /ˈlea/ [ˈle.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: le‧a

lea f

1. feminine singular of leo

lea

1. inflection of leer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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-lea (infinitive kulea)

1. to raise a child, to rear
2. to care for something (attend to the needs of)