lea
/liː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An open field, meadow, pasture.
name
A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
name
An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
name
A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
name
A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
name
A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6521).
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Etymology
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 ló (“clearing, meadow”).
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Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.