lei
leggen
- (transitive) to lay (to place in a lying position)
- (transitive) to lay (eggs) (to produce and deposit eggs)
- (alt-of, alternative, colloquial, proscribed) alternative form of liggen
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lɛi/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch leye, probably an old Germanic loan from Gaulish *lēi, from Proto-Celtic *līwanks (compare *līwos (“stone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”), see also Ancient Greek λᾶας (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”).
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