leat

• leet

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.

leat (plural leats)

1. an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, tael, tale, teal, tela

• IPA^(key): /lʲat̪ˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /lʲæt̪ˠ/

leat (emphatic leatsa)

1. second-person singular of le: with you sg, to you sg

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

From Proto-Samic *leatēk.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlea̯h(t)/

leat

1. to be
2. (possessor in locative case) to have, to possess
3. (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense, together with a past participle.

In the meaning "have", the thing possessed is in the nominative case, while the possessor is in the locative case.

• leahkit

• leahkin
• doppe leat
• leat lohpi

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• le + tu

leat

1. with you, by you (informal singular)

• leam-leat
• leatsa

• leibh

leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)

1. plant shoot

• “leat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011