# leat
## English
### Alternative forms

* leet

### Etymology

Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ġelǣte (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæterġelǣt (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *lētą, *galētą (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gilāz (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.

### Noun

leat (plural leats)
* An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.

#### Derived terms

* leatwright
* mill-leat

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* teal, tael, et. al, atel-, LATE, late, TEAl, Elta, et al., TEAL, et al, Teal, tela, EATL, ETLA, tale

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lʲat̪ˠ/
* (Cois Fharraige) IPA: /lʲæt̪ˠ/

### Pronoun

leat (emphatic leatsa)
* second-person singular of le: with you sg, to you sg

### References

* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume I, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 196
* ↑ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 308, page 143

## Northern Sami
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Samic *leatēk (“to be”), from Proto-Uralic *le- (“to become”).

### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈlea̯h(t)/

### Verb

leat
* to be
* (possessor in locative case) to have, to possess
* (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense, together with a past participle.

#### Usage notes

In the meaning "have", the thing possessed is in the nominative case, while the possessor is in the locative case.

#### Alternative forms

* leahkit

#### Derived terms

* leahkin
* doppe leat
* leat lohpi

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /læ͜ɑːt/

### Verb

lēat
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of lūtan

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣто (lěto), from Proto-Slavic *lěto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [le̯at]

### Noun

leat n (plural leaturi)
* (dated) year
* (figurative) being of the same age
* (dated) recruit

#### Declension
## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish lat. Cognates include Irish leat and Manx lhiat.

### Pronunciation

* (Lewis) IPA: /leʰt̪/, [le̞ʰt̪]
* (Uist, Wester Ross) IPA: /lɛht̪/
* (Barra) IPA: [læht̪]
* Hyphenation: leat

### Pronoun

leat
* second-person singular of le: with you; by you

#### Inflection
### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382

## West Frisian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)
* plant shoot

#### Further reading

* “leat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011