layer

Sätze
Bedeutung (Englisch)

Konzepte

Legehenne

Bekleidungsschicht

durch Ableger vermehren

in Schichten aufteilen

schichtweise legen

Gesteinsschicht

Erdschicht

Absenker

Oxidhaut

-leger

Kindel

Deck Bord Bord Schicht

Keim-Blatt

only in combined words

Zellschicht

Absenker machen

Frequenz

C1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/lɛə/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay + -er. In which case, ultimately identical to etymology 2 below. For the pronunciation compare prayer. However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has also been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger.

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