Noun: leather
| Singular | leather |
| Plural | leathers |
Sample Sentences
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The goalee made a frantic grab as the leather spun clean past him, but he was just a second too late, and Joe had scored for Redcliff. [1918, M. M. Guy, Joe Doughty, page 157:]
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Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.
Nouns inflected like leather
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *letrosbor.
3. Proto-Germanic *leþrą
4. Proto-West Germanic *leþr
5. Old English leþer
6. Middle English lether
7. English leather
8. From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro- (“skin, hide”).
9. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leder (“leather”), West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”). Compare also English fell (“skin, hide, pelt”), film. See: Middle English Nouns '
lether', Old English Nouns '
leþer', Dutch Nouns '
leder', German Nouns '
Leder', Danish Nouns '
læder', Swedish Nouns '
läder', Icelandic Nouns '
leður', English Nouns '
fell'.
Verbs referencing "leather"
Dutch Nouns
leder, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
leder.