lee

See also: Lee, leé, l'ee, and le'e

English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: lea

Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwą (compare German Lee (“lee”), lau (“lukewarm”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

Noun

lee (plural lees)

  1. (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  2. (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
  3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
    the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
    • Morte d'Arthure
      We lurked under lee.
    • Tyndall
      Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

Adjective

lee (not comparable)

Glacier flowing right to left over a bump of rock.
Lee side on the left; stoss side on the right
  1. (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
    lee side, lee shore, lee helm

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Etymology 2

Noun

lee (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) lees; dregs
    • Young
      A thousand demons lurk within the lee.

Further reading

Anagrams

Afar

Noun

lee

  1. water

References

  • Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"

Luxembourgish

Verb

lee

  1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

Verb

lee

  1. To lie; to speak falsely.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ledd.

Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

  1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

Scots

Verb

lee (third-person singular present lees, present participle leein, past leet, past participle leet)

  1. to lie (tell lies)

Spanish

Verb

lee

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of leer.

Tswana

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪ.ɪ/

Noun

lee class 5 (plural mae)

  1. egg
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