# lee
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː
* Homophones: le, lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

### Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

#### Noun

lee (plural lees)
* (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
* (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
* A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
    the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
** 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in, (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:We lurked under lee.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1873, John Tyndall, “Niagara”, in Fragments of Science, published 1907, page 182:Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.
* Calm, peace.

##### Antonyms

* (geology) stoss
* (nautical) weather, windward

##### Derived terms

* alee
* lee cloth
* lee-ho
* leeward
* leeway
* Merry Lees
* under the lee

##### Translations
#### Adjective

lee (not comparable)
* (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
    lee side, lee shore, lee helm

##### Derived terms

* lee gauge
* lee shore

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lee (uncountable)
* (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
** 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or The Man of the World Answered. In which are Considered, the Love of This Life; the Ambition and Pleasure, with the Wit and Wisdom, of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 264:A thousand demons lurk within the lee.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

lee (plural lees)
* Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).
** 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, page 184:Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]

### Further reading

* Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
* “lee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### See also

* on one's lee-lane (probably etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* ELE, eel

## Afar
### Etymology

Cognates include Saho lay.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleː/ [ˈleː]
* Hyphenation: lee

### Noun

lée f (plural lelwá f)
* water

#### Declension

absolutive
lée
predicative
lée
subjective
lée
genitive
lée
Postpositioned forms
l-case
léel
k-case
léek
t-case
léet
h-case
léeh :

### References

* Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar‎, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “lee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usage example lee fax-te "the water boiled"
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99

## Belizean Creole
### Adjective

lee
* little

### References

* Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

## Finnish
### Etymology

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleː/, [ˈle̞ː]
* Rhymes: -eː
* Hyphenation: lee

### Noun

lee
* (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
* (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)
    saaren lee ― lee of an island

#### Declension

Possessive forms of lee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
leeni
leeni
accusative
nom.
leeni
leeni
gen.
leeni
genitive
leeni
leideni leitteni
partitive
leetäni
leitäni
inessive
leessäni
leissäni
elative
leestäni
leistäni
illative
leeheni
leihini
adessive
leelläni
leilläni
ablative
leeltäni
leiltäni
allative
leelleni
leilleni
essive
leenäni
leinäni
translative
leekseni
leikseni
abessive
leettäni
leittäni
instructive
comitative
—leineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
leesi
leesi
accusative
nom.
leesi
leesi
gen.
leesi
genitive
leesi
leidesi leittesi
partitive
leetäsi
leitäsi
inessive
leessäsi
leissäsi
elative
leestäsi
leistäsi
illative
leehesi
leihisi
adessive
leelläsi
leilläsi
ablative
leeltäsi
leiltäsi
allative
leellesi
leillesi
essive
leenäsi
leinäsi
translative
leeksesi
leiksesi
abessive
leettäsi
leittäsi
instructive
comitative
—leinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
leemme
leemme
accusative
nom.
leemme
leemme
gen.
leemme
genitive
leemme
leidemme leittemme
partitive
leetämme
leitämme
inessive
leessämme
leissämme
elative
leestämme
leistämme
illative
leehemme
leihimme
adessive
leellämme
leillämme
ablative
leeltämme
leiltämme
allative
leellemme
leillemme
essive
leenämme
leinämme
translative
leeksemme
leiksemme
abessive
leettämme
leittämme
instructive
comitative
—leinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
leenne
leenne
accusative
nom.
leenne
leenne
gen.
leenne
genitive
leenne
leidenne leittenne
partitive
leetänne
leitänne
inessive
leessänne
leissänne
elative
leestänne
leistänne
illative
leehenne
leihinne
adessive
leellänne
leillänne
ablative
leeltänne
leiltänne
allative
leellenne
leillenne
essive
leenänne
leinänne
translative
leeksenne
leiksenne
abessive
leettänne
leittänne
instructive
comitative
—leinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
leensä
leensä
accusative
nom.
leensä
leensä
gen.
leensä
genitive
leensä
leidensä leittensä
partitive
leetään leetänsä
leitään leitänsä
inessive
leessään leessänsä
leissään leissänsä
elative
leestään leestänsä
leistään leistänsä
illative
leehensä
leihinsä
adessive
leellään leellänsä
leillään leillänsä
ablative
leeltään leeltänsä
leiltään leiltänsä
allative
leelleen leellensä
leilleen leillensä
essive
leenään leenänsä
leinään leinänsä
translative
leekseen leeksensä
leikseen leiksensä
abessive
leettään leettänsä
leittään leittänsä
instructive
comitative
—leineen leinensä :

#### Synonyms

* (side of ship): suojanpuoli

#### Derived terms

* leenpuoleinen

### Anagrams

* ele

## Galician
### Verb

lee
* inflection of lear:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

lee
* second-person singular imperative of leeën

## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English lēogan.

### Verb

lee
* To lie; to speak falsely.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

## Northern Sotho
### Noun

lee
* egg

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From ledd.

### Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)
* to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

### References

* “lee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “lee” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lee/le)
* Alternative form of lea

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* leh (Dundee)

### Etymology

From Old English lēogan.

### Verb

lee (third-person singular simple present lees, present participle leein, simple past leet, past participle leet)
* To lie (tell lies).
** 1876, S[arah] R. Whitehead, “On the Wrong Coach”, in Daft Davie and Other Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 220:‘It’s a lee,’ says the man; ‘she’s either drunk or daft.’ / ‘Me drunk, you ill-tongued vagabond!’ says my Auntie Kirsty, who couldna bear such a reproach on her good name, ‘I’m a’ but blackfasting this day from either meat or drink; you had better no meddle wi’ my character.’(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlee/ [ˈle.e]
* Rhymes: -ee
* Syllabification: le‧e

### Verb

lee
* inflection of leer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Tswana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɪ.ɪ/

### Noun

lee class 5 (plural mae)
* egg

## Yola
### Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

#### Alternative forms

* lidge

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liː/, /lɪd͡ʒ/

#### Verb

lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth, simple past lidg'd)
* to lie, lay

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

lee
* Alternative form of laave (“leave”)

### 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