leat

• leet

Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ġelǣte (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæterġelǣt (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *lētą, *galētą (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gilāz (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.

 

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leat (plural leats)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /lʲat̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /lʲæt̪ˠ/^[2]

leat (emphatic leatsa)

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

Inherited from Proto-Samic *leatēk (“to be”), from Proto-Uralic *le- (“to become”).

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlea̯h(t)/

leat

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

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

• leahkit

• leahkin
• doppe leat
• leat lohpi

• 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

• IPA^(key): /læ͜ɑːt/

lēat

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of lūtan

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣто (lěto), from Proto-Slavic *lěto.

• IPA^(key): [le̯at]

leat n (plural leaturi)

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

From Old Irish lat. Cognates include Irish leat and Manx lhiat.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /leʰt̪/, [le̞ʰt̪]^[1]
• (Uist, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /lɛht̪/^[2][3]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [læht̪]^[4]
• Hyphenation: leat

leat

1. second-person singular of le: with you; by you

• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382

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leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)

1. plant shoot

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