leigh
/ˈliː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.
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A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
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Etymology
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) 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 (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: legh, lēah, *lauhaz, *lówkos