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LeetEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a road junction, from Old English ġelǣte (“intersection, crossroads”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗LEETEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Modelled on NEET.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗leetEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗leetEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗leetEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ġelǣte (“crossroads”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗leetEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Jamieson mentions the alternative spellings lyth, lythe, laid, and laith, and connects it to a verb lythe (“to shelter”), as it "is frequently caught ... in deep holes among the rocks".
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗leetEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelǣt, ġelǣte, from Proto-Germanic *galētą, *lētą. More at leat.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗leetEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- LeetEnglish · e-38538-7203
Leet, lēt, n. (Scot.) a selected list of candidates for an office.—Short leet, a small list of selected candidates—for the final choice. [Ice. leiti, a share; cf. A.S. hlét, hlýt, forms of hlot, lot.]
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Leet, lēt, n. an ancient English court, esp. the assembly of the men of a township: the district subject to such: the right to hold such a court.—n. Court′-leet (see Court). [A.S. lǽth.]
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