leat

Signification (Anglais)

An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.

Traductions

τάφρος

χαντάκι

levada

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: lete

Hérité de ancien anglais: ġelǣte

Appartenant à ancien anglais: wæterġelǣt

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: gilāz

Appartenant à allemand: Gelass

Appartenant à anglais: let

In summary

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.