# lea
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liː/, /leɪ/
* Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
* Homophones: lee, Lee, Leigh

### 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”).
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”).

#### Alternative forms

* leigh, ley, lay

#### Noun

lea (plural leas)
* 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;

##### Derived terms

* Halton Lea Gate
* Lea Green
* Lea Hall
* Lea Marston

##### Related terms

* -leigh

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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”).

#### Noun

lea (plural leas)
* Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
    Synonym: rap
* A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

### Anagrams

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

## French
### Etymology

Blend of le +‎ la.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lə.a/

### Article

lea gender-neutral (plural les)
* (neologism) the

### Pronoun

lea gender-neutral (plural les)
* (neologism) them (direct object)
    Je ne lea vois pas souvent.I don't see them often

#### Related terms

$^1$ On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms). $^2$ Vous is also used as the polite singular form. $^3$ Ils and eux are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members. $^4$ These forms are also used as third person plural reflexive.

#### See also

* iel

## Galician
### Verb

lea
* inflection of ler:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* inflection of lear:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Noun

lea f (plural leas)
* fight, quarrel
    Synonyms: liorta, briga, lida

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈle.a/, [ˈɫ̪eä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.a/, [ˈlɛːä]

### Noun

lea f (genitive leae); first declension
* (poetic) a lioness

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* leaena

#### Related terms

* leō m

### References

* “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

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈlea̯/

### Verb

lea
* third-person singular present indicative of leat

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

lea
* simple past and past participle of lee

#### Alternative forms

* leet

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From the Old Norse verbs liða and hliða.

#### Alternative forms

* lee (with e infinitive)
* leda, lede

#### Verb

lea (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lea/le)
* (transitive) to wiggle, move

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

lea n
* definite plural of le

### References

* “lea” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* ale, ela

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /læ͜ɑː/

### Verb

lēa
* inflection of lēan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [le̯a]

### Verb

lea
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of la

## Sidamo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlea/
* Hyphenation: le‧a

### Verb

lea
* (intransitive) to be ripe

### References

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlea/ [ˈle.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: le‧a

### Verb

lea
* inflection of leer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-lea (infinitive kulea)
* to raise a child, to rear
* to care for something (attend to the needs of)

#### Conjugation

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 future | positive subject concord + -talea |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -talea |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Passive: -lelewa (“to be raised”)
* Nominal derivations:
** ulezi (“upbringing”)

## Tongan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /le.a/

### Noun

lea
* language; speech
    lea fakatonga ― Tongan language

## Yola
### Verb

lea
* 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.

### References

* 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