léas

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲeːsˠ/
• Homophone: leigheas (Ulster)

From Middle Irish lés (“light, radiance”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸlenstus. Possibly influenced by Old Norse ljós.

léas m (genitive singular léis, nominative plural léasacha)

1. ray of light; light, radiance; beam, streak (of light); gleam, glimmer
2. weal, welt; red spot, blister

• spéirléas

From Middle Irish léas, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), from Medieval Latin lassō (“let, let go”).

léas m (genitive singular léasa, nominative plural léasanna)

1. lease

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

léas f (genitive singular léise, nominative plural léasa)

1. Alternative form of dias (“ear of corn; spike; point; scion”)
2. (agriculture) cornstalk (with ear)
3. wisp of straw

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

léas (present analytic léasann, future analytic léasfaidh, verbal noun léasadh, past participle léasta)

1. (transitive) welt; thrash, flog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

léas

1. inflection of léigh:
   1. relative present indicative
   2. first-person singular past indicative

• léigheas (obsolete)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “léas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN