Noun: lea
Sample Sentences
-
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. [1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:]
-
19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
-
Two children in two neighbor villages
-
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Nouns inflected like lea
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. 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”).
2. 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 ló (“clearing, meadow”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
ló'.
Verbs referencing "lea"
Dutch Nouns
loo, Italian Nouns
luco.