leeg

From Dutch leeg.

• IPA^(key): /lɪəχ/

• Audio:

  (file)

leeg (attributive leë, comparative leër, superlative leegste)

1. empty

• vol

• IPA^(key): /leːx/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːx

From older ledig, from Middle Dutch lēdich, from Old Dutch *lithig, from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz.

leeg (comparative leger, superlative leegst)

1. empty, hollow

   Synonym: laar

   • Jesse Frederik, "Dode liberalen over 'het grote dikke ik', hebzucht en graaiers", Follow the Money, 2 June 2015.

     ‘Ieder die nadenkt over de verhoudingen van den mensch tot het goed der aarde, zal getroffen worden door het feit dat vaak hij die arbeidt, arm is, terwijl hij die ledig door het leven gaat zich baadt in overvloed,’ stelde van der Linden vast.

     "Everyone who thinks about the relations between humanity and material goods, will be struck by the fact that often he who works is poor, while he who leads an empty life wallows in abundance," Van der Linden observed.

   De fles wijn was helaas leeg. ― Unfortunately, the bottle of wine was empty.

2. (figuratively) listless, lethargic

• ledig, leêg

• vol

• Afrikaans: leeg, ledig
• Negerhollands: leeg
• → Sranan Tongo: leigi
  • → Aukan: leigi
  • → Caribbean Javanese: légi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

leeg

1. inflection of legen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• egel, geel, gele, lege

leeg

1. Alternative spelling of leeg'.

From Middle Chinese 藍 (lɑm, “green, blue, grue”). Historically there was no distinction between green and blue.

IPA^(key): /lẽ˧˩̤/

leeg

1. green
2. blue
3. grue

• This word is mostly used in Green Hmong loanwords of Chinese origin, and mostly in compound words.

• laeg
• lieg, liig

From Proto-Philippine *liqəʀ (cf. Bikol Central liog, Bolinao liey, Cebuano liog, Maguindanao lig, Maranao lig, Tausug liug), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ (cf. Malay leher, Hawaiian leo (“voice”), Maori reo (“voice; language”), Tetum lian (“voice; language”)), from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ (cf. Amis li'el).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /leˈʔeɡ/
  • Rhymes: -eɡ
• (now dialectal, Rizal, Southern Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈleʔeɡ/
  • Rhymes: -eʔeɡ
• Syllabification: le‧eg

leég (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜁᜄ᜔)

1. (anatomy) neck
2. part of a garment that covers or encircles the neck

• “leeg”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Middle Dutch laech, from Old Dutch *lāg, from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːɦ/
• Rhymes: -eːɦ

leeg (comparative leger, superlative leegst)

1. lazy

From Middle Chinese 藍 (lɑm, “green, blue, grue”). Historically there was no distinction between green and blue.

• IPA^(key): /lẽ˧˩̤/

leeg

1. green
2. blue
3. grue

• This word is mostly used in White Hmong loanwords of Chinese origin, and mostly in compound words.