leigh

See also: Leigh, léigh, and lèigh

English

Alternative forms
  • lea, ley
  • (in personal and place names) -leigh, -ley, -ly

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 (“used in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.

Noun

leigh (plural leighs)

  1. (archaic) A meadow.

Manx

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [lɛi]

Noun

leigh f (genitive singular leigh, plural leighaghyn or leighyn)

  1. law

Derived terms

Middle English

Verb

leigh

  1. Alternative form of laughen
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