different between leat vs leag

English

Alternative forms

• leet

Etymology

Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ?el?te (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæter?el?t (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *l?t?, *gal?t? (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gil?z (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.

Noun

leat (plural leats)

1. an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace

Translations

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, tael, tale, teal, tela

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?at??/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /l?æt??/

Pronoun

leat (emphatic leatsa)

1. second-person singular of le: with you sg, to you sg

References

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *leat?k.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?lea?h(t)/

Verb

leat

1. to be
2. (possessor in locative case) to have, to possess
3. (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense, together with a past participle.

Usage notes

In the meaning "have", the thing possessed is in the nominative case, while the possessor is in the locative case.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• leahkit

Derived terms

• leahkin
• doppe leat
• leat lohpi

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?to

Noun

leat n (plural leaturi)

1. (dated) year
2. (figuratively) being of the same age
3. (dated) recruit

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• le + tu

Pronoun

leat

1. with you, by you (informal singular)

Derived terms

• leam-leat
• leatsa

See also

• leibh

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)

1. plant shoot

Further reading

• “leat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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.