lea

Signification (English)

An open field, meadow, pasture.

Concepts

pâturage

prairie

pré

pâture

vestibule

champs de foin

Synonyms

meadow

pasture

grazing land

ley

pastureland

field

mead

moor

prairie

scythe

skein

sod

sward

thread

🧵

grass land

meadow grass rotation

coil

meader

hank

lawn

lay

leigh

maze

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/liː/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: legh

Inherited from ancien anglais: lēah

Cognate with Old Frisian: lāch

Cognate with Old Saxon: lōh

Cognate with moyen néerlandais: loo

Cognate with néerlandais: -lo

Cognate with ancien haut allemand: lōh

Cognate with vieux norrois: lo

Inherited from moyen anglais: le

Cognate with ancien français: lier

Cognate with ancien français: laisse

Cognate with ancien français: lïace

In summary

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”).