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lee

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

Noun

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lee (plural lees)

  1. (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  2. (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
  3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
    the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
  4. Calm, peace.
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Adjective

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lee (not comparable)

 
Lee side on the left; stoss side on the right
  1. (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
    lee side, lee shore, lee helm
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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lee (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.

Etymology 3

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Noun

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lee (plural lees)

  1. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).
    • 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, page 184:
      Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]

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Afar

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Etymology

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Cognates include Saho lay.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈleː/ [ˈleː]
  • Hyphenation: lee

Noun

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lée f (plural lelwá f)

  1. water

Declension

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Declension of lée
absolutive lée
predicative lée
subjective lée
genitive lée
Postpositioned forms
l-case léel
k-case léek
t-case léet
h-case léeh

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  • Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar‎[1], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “lee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usage example lee fax-te "the water boiled"
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99

Belizean Creole

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Adjective

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lee

  1. little

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  • Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

Finnish

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Etymology

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< Swedish lä (“lee”)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈleː/, [ˈle̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Syllabification(key): lee

Noun

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lee

  1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
  2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)
    saaren lee ― lee of an island

Declension

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Inflection of lee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative lee leet
genitive leen leiden
leitten
partitive leetä leitä
illative leehen leihin
singular plural
nominative lee leet
accusative nom. lee leet
gen. leen
genitive leen leiden
leitten
partitive leetä leitä
inessive leessä leissä
elative leestä leistä
illative leehen leihin
adessive leellä leillä
ablative leeltä leiltä
allative leelle leille
essive leenä leinä
translative leeksi leiksi
abessive leettä leittä
instructive — lein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of lee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative leeni leeni
accusative nom. leeni leeni
gen. leeni
genitive leeni leideni
leitteni
partitive leetäni leitäni
inessive leessäni leissäni
elative leestäni leistäni
illative leeheni leihini
adessive leelläni leilläni
ablative leeltäni leiltäni
allative leelleni leilleni
essive leenäni leinäni
translative leekseni leikseni
abessive leettäni leittäni
instructive — —
comitative — leineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative leesi leesi
accusative nom. leesi leesi
gen. leesi
genitive leesi leidesi
leittesi
partitive leetäsi leitäsi
inessive leessäsi leissäsi
elative leestäsi leistäsi
illative leehesi leihisi
adessive leelläsi leilläsi
ablative leeltäsi leiltäsi
allative leellesi leillesi
essive leenäsi leinäsi
translative leeksesi leiksesi
abessive leettäsi leittäsi
instructive — —
comitative — leinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative leemme leemme
accusative nom. leemme leemme
gen. leemme
genitive leemme leidemme
leittemme
partitive leetämme leitämme
inessive leessämme leissämme
elative leestämme leistämme
illative leehemme leihimme
adessive leellämme leillämme
ablative leeltämme leiltämme
allative leellemme leillemme
essive leenämme leinämme
translative leeksemme leiksemme
abessive leettämme leittämme
instructive — —
comitative — leinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative leenne leenne
accusative nom. leenne leenne
gen. leenne
genitive leenne leidenne
leittenne
partitive leetänne leitänne
inessive leessänne leissänne
elative leestänne leistänne
illative leehenne leihinne
adessive leellänne leillänne
ablative leeltänne leiltänne
allative leellenne leillenne
essive leenänne leinänne
translative leeksenne leiksenne
abessive leettänne leittänne
instructive — —
comitative — leinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative leensä leensä
accusative nom. leensä leensä
gen. leensä
genitive leensä leidensä
leittensä
partitive leetään
leetänsä 		leitään
leitänsä
inessive leessään
leessänsä 		leissään
leissänsä
elative leestään
leestänsä 		leistään
leistänsä
illative leehensä leihinsä
adessive leellään
leellänsä 		leillään
leillänsä
ablative leeltään
leeltänsä 		leiltään
leiltänsä
allative leelleen
leellensä 		leilleen
leillensä
essive leenään
leenänsä 		leinään
leinänsä
translative leekseen
leeksensä 		leikseen
leiksensä
abessive leettään
leettänsä 		leittään
leittänsä
instructive — —
comitative — leineen
leinensä

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Galician

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Verb

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lee

  1. inflection of lear:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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lee

  1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English lēogan.

Verb

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lee

  1. To lie; to speak falsely.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Northern Sotho

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Noun

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lee

  1. egg

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From ledd.

Verb

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lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

  1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lee/le)

  1. Alternative form of lea

Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English lēogan.

Verb

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lee (third-person singular simple present lees, present participle leein, simple past leet, past participle leet)

  1. To lie (tell lies).
    • 1876, S[arah] R. Whitehead, “On the Wrong Coach”, in Daft Davie and Other Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 220:
      ‘It’s a lee,’ says the man; ‘she’s either drunk or daft.’ / ‘Me drunk, you ill-tongued vagabond!’ says my Auntie Kirsty, who couldna bear such a reproach on her good name, ‘I’m a’ but blackfasting this day from either meat or drink; you had better no meddle wi’ my character.’
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlee/ [ˈle.e]
  • Rhymes: -ee
  • Syllabification: le‧e

Verb

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lee

  1. inflection of leer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Tswana

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Noun

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lee class 5 (plural mae)

  1. egg

Yola

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Alternative forms

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Verb

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lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth, simple past lidg'd)

  1. to lie, lay

Etymology 2

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Verb

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lee

  1. Alternative form of laave (“leave”)

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52
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