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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěxa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /lʲɛːxa/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /lʲexa/
Noun
lecha f
- (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
- (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)
- milt
Etymology 2
Verb
lecha
- inflection of lechar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading