lee
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lee"
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
lee (plural lees)
- (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
- (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
- 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
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- We lurked under lee.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1873, John Tyndall, “Niagara”, in Fragments of Science, published 1907, page 182:
- Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.
- Calm, peace.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
protected cove or harbor, out of the wind
side of the ship away from the wind
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sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object
Adjective
lee (not comparable)
- (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
- lee side, lee shore, lee helm
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
lee (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
- 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or The Man of the World Answered. In which are Considered, the Love of This Life; the Ambition and Pleasure, with the Wit and Wisdom, of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 264:
- A thousand demons lurk within the lee.
Etymology 3
Noun
lee (plural lees)
- 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 […]
Further reading
Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “lee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “lee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
See also
- on one's lee-lane (probably etymologically unrelated)
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
lée f (plural lelwá f)
Declension
References
- Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar, 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), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99
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Adjective
lee
References
- Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
lee
- (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
- (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)
- saaren lee ― lee of an island
Declension
| Inflection of lee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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| 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. | ||
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Synonyms
- (side of ship): suojanpuoli
Derived terms
compounds
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Verb
lee
- inflection of lear:
Verb
lee
Etymology
From Old English lēogan.
Verb
lee
- To lie; to speak falsely.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Noun
lee
Etymology
From ledd.
Verb
lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)
- to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move
References
Verb
lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lee/le)
- Alternative form of lea
Alternative forms
- leh (Dundee)
Etymology
From Old English lēogan.
Verb
lee (third-person singular simple present lees, present participle leein, simple past leet, past participle leet)
- 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)
Pronunciation
Verb
lee
- inflection of leer:
Pronunciation
Noun
lee class 5 (plural mae)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth, simple past lidg'd)
Etymology 2
Verb
lee
- Alternative form of laave (“leave”)
References
- 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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