leigh

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See also: Leigh, léigh, and lèigh

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.

Pronunciation

Noun

leigh (plural leighs)

  1. (archaic) A meadow.

Manx

Etymology

From Old French lei (“law”), ultimately from Latin lēx.

Pronunciation

Noun

leigh f (genitive singular leigh, plural leighaghyn or leighyn)

  1. law

Derived terms

Middle English

Verb

leigh

  1. Alternative form of laughen

Yola

Etymology 1

Verb

leigh[1]

  1. Alternative form of leiough
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
      Ch'am a stouk, an a donel; wou'll leigh out ee dey.
      I am a fool and a dunce; we'll idle out the day.

Etymology 2

Verb

leigh

  1. Alternative form of leeigh (“to laugh”)
    • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 14[2]:
      But aal a bys do leigh an praat,
      But all the boys do laugh and prate,

References

  1. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52
  2. ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131
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