Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA meadow.
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.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionleghenm
- Inherited-form mentionlēahang · clearing in a forest
- Inherited-form mention*lauhazgem-pro · meadow
- Inherited-form mention*lówkosine-pro · field, meadow
- Cognate mentionlāchofs
- Cognate mentionlōhosx
- Cognate mentionloodum
- Cognate mention-lonl
- Cognate mentionlōhgoh
- Cognate mentionlónon
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