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, pasture.
   • 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.

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

Blend of le +‎ la.

• IPA^(key): /lə.a/

lea gender-neutral (plural les)

1. (neologism) the

lea gender-neutral (plural les)

1. (neologism) them (direct object)

   Je ne lea vois pas souvent.

   I don't see them often

• iel

lea

1. inflection of ler:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of lear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

lea f (plural leas)

1. fight, quarrel

   Synonyms: liorta, briga, lida

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
• (modern Italianate 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): /læ͜ɑː/

lēa

1. inflection of lēan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

• 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

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

• Audio (Kenya):

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-lea (infinitive kulea)

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

Conjugation of -lea
Positive present -nalea Subjunctive -lee Negative -lei Imperative singular lea
Infinitives
Positive kulea Negative kutolea
Imperatives
Singular lea Plural leeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hulea Positive past positive subject concord + -lilea Negative past negative subject concord + -kulea
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nalea) Singular Plural 1st person ninalea/nalea tunalea 2nd person unalea mnalea 3rd person m-wa(I/II) analea wanalea other classes positive subject concord + -nalea
Negative present (negative subject concord + -lei) Singular Plural 1st person silei hatulei 2nd person hulei hamlei 3rd person m-wa(I/II) halei hawalei other classes negative subject concord + -lei
Positive future positive subject concord + -talea Negative future negative subject concord + -talea
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -lee) Singular Plural 1st person nilee tulee 2nd person ulee mlee 3rd person m-wa(I/II) alee walee other classes positive subject concord + -lee
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -silee Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngelea Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singelea Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalilea Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalilea
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -alea) Singular Plural 1st person nalea twalea 2nd person walea mwalea 3rd person m-wa(I/II) alea walea m-mi(III/IV) walea yalea ji-ma(V/VI) lalea yalea ki-vi(VII/VIII) chalea vyalea n(IX/X) yalea zalea u(XI) walea see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwalea pa(XVI) palea mu(XVIII) mwalea
Perfect positive subject concord + -melea "Already" positive subject concord + -meshalea "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jalea "If/When" positive subject concord + -kilea "If not" positive subject concord + -sipolea Consecutive kalea / positive subject concord + -kalea Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kalee
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nilea -tulea 2nd person -kulea -walea/-kuleeni/-waleeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mlea -walea m-mi(III/IV) -ulea -ilea ji-ma(V/VI) -lilea -yalea ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kilea -vilea n(IX/X) -ilea -zilea u(XI) -ulea see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kulea pa(XVI) -palea mu(XVIII) -mulea Reflexive -jilea
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -lea- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -leaye -leao m-mi(III/IV) -leao -leayo ji-ma(V/VI) -lealo -leayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -leacho -leavyo n(IX/X) -leayo -leazo u(XI) -leao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -leako pa(XVI) -leapo mu(XVIII) -leamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -lea) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yelea -olea m-mi(III/IV) -olea -yolea ji-ma(V/VI) -lolea -yolea ki-vi(VII/VIII) -cholea -vyolea n(IX/X) -yolea -zolea u(XI) -olea see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kolea pa(XVI) -polea mu(XVIII) -molea
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Passive: -lelewa (“to be raised”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • ulezi (“upbringing”)

Probably from Proto-Polynesian *leo (compare Maori reo).

• IPA^(key): /le.a/

lea

1. language; speech

   lea fakatonga ― Tongan language

lea

1. Alternative form of laave
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:

     An lea a pariesh o Kilmannan.

     And leave the parish of Kilmannan.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52