different between lear vs leag

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English l?r (“lore”). More at lore.

Noun

lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)

1. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
2. (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].

   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 3, p.100.

     'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'

   • 1898, Francis James Child (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy, from Child's Ballads,

     They dressed up in maids' array,

     And passd for sisters fair;

     With ae consent gaed ower the sea,

     For to seek after lear.

Etymology 2

From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”). Doublet of learn (Etymology 2).

Verb

lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)

1. (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To learn.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from The Canterbury Tales,

     He hath take on him many a great emprise,

     Which were full hard for any that is here

     To bring about, but they of him it lear.

Etymology 3

See lehr.

Noun

lear (plural lears)

1. Alternative form of lehr

Anagrams

• Arel, Earl, Elar, Lare, Rael, Raël, Real, earl, lare, rale, real

Galician

Alternative forms

• liar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese liar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin lig?re, present active infinitive of lig?. Compare Spanish liar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?a?/

Verb

lear (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado)

1. (transitive) to wrap, coil

   Synonym: envurullar

2. (transitive) to link

   Synonym: ligar

3. (transitive) to entangle

   Synonyms: enlear, enredar

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to wrestle, fight

   Synonyms: enlear, loitar, rifar, punar, barallar, desortir

Conjugation

Related terms

References

• “liar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “liar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??a??/

Noun

lear m (genitive singular lir)

1. (literary or archaic, except in phrases) sea, ocean

Derived terms

• thar lear (“overseas”)

Volapük

Noun

lear (nominative plural lears)

1. olive tree

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English lere, from Old English *l?re, gel?r.

Adjective

lear

1. empty

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

leag (plural leags)

1. Archaic spelling of league.

Anagrams

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, geal, lage

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??a?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish lecaid, from Old Norse leggja.

Verb

leag (present analytic leagann, future analytic leagfaidh, verbal noun leagan, past participle leagtha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. knock down
2. lower
3. lay, set
4. (knitting) cast off (stitch)
5. (card games) play

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

leag f (genitive singular leige, nominative plural leaga)

1. Alternative form of leac

Declension

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 lecaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “leagaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "leag" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.