lecha

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See also: Lecha, lechá, and lécha

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěxa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /lʲɛːxa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /lʲexa/

Noun

lecha f

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) bed (narrow strip of arable land restricted by furrows)
    • 1876-1929 [c. 1455], Vatroslav Jagić, editor, Archiv für slavische Philologie, volume XIV, Miechów, Kruchowo, page 495:
      Lecha aruetum
      [Lecha aruetum]

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “lecha”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

lecha f

  1. (agriculture, Far Masovian) plot of arable land twice as wide as a normal one

Further reading

  • Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “lecha”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlet͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -etʃa
  • Syllabification: le‧cha

Etymology 1

Suffixed feminine form of leche (milk).

Noun

lecha f (plural lechas)

  1. milt

Etymology 2

Verb

lecha

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

Further reading