leigh

FREQ #12625

n. 利（男子名, 等于Lee）

发音

/liː/

词形变化

leighs 复数 leighs

别名

lea ley -leigh -ly

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A meadow.

    古体

相关短语

Leigh disease Leigh Delamere Leigh syndrome Leigh Creek South Leigh and High Cogges South Leigh

词源

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.

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