Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Leaky.
To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed. · (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed. · To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously. · To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. · The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture. · A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret. · The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”). Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake. (divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
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- Inherited-form mentionlekenenm
- Inherited-form mention*lecanang
- Derivation mentionlekendum
- Derivation mentionlekanon
- Inherited-form mention*lekanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*leg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionlekkennl
- Cognate mentionlechende
- Cognate mentionlækkeda
- Cognate mentionläckasv
- Cognate mentionlekkenb · to leak
- Cognate mentionleċċanang
- Cognate mentionlagsq
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