ley

• IPA^(key): /leɪ/, /liː/
• Rhymes: -eɪ, -iː

See lea.

ley (plural leys)

1. Alternative spelling of lea
2. (agriculture) Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
3. A ley line.
   • 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:

     For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]

• Blackbird Leys

ley (not comparable)

1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

ley

1. Archaic form of lye.

ley

1. (obsolete) Law.

• peso ley

• Ely, Lye, lye, yel

Inherited from Spanish ley.

ley

1. law

ley

1. (Maasina) in

   A ɗuunnii sukkara ley cafe ɗe.

   You put too much sugar in the coffee.

   O tummbeke ley akalawal mobel am.

   He got into the back of my truck.

   Taa ŋawlunduree ley suudu ga, njehee sella.

   Don't wrestle in the house, go outside.

2. under

• Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.

From Old English lēah, lēaġe (“a clearing in the woods”).

ley (plural leys)

1. an open field or meadow

• English: ley, lea

From Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx. Compare Old French lei, loi.

ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular ley, nominative plural leys)

1. law

• Occitan: lei

ley f (plural leys)

1. Obsolete spelling of lei.

Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlei/ [ˈlei̯]

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• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: ley

ley f (plural leyes)

1. law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
2. law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
3. law (particular piece of legislation)
4. religion, credence, worship of a god

• “ley”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28