lee

English Online Dictionary. What means lee‎? What does lee mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: le, lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw, from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

Noun

lee (plural lees)

1. (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
4. Calm, peace.

Antonyms

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

lee (not comparable)

1. (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.

Etymology 3

Noun

lee (plural lees)

1. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).

Further reading

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “lee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “lee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

See also

• on one's lee-lane (probably etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• ELE, eel

Afar

Etymology

Cognates include Saho lay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː/ [ˈleː]
• Hyphenation: lee

Noun

lée f (plural lelwá f)

1. water

Declension

References

• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar‎^[1], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5
• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “lee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usage example lee fax-te "the water boiled"
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99

Belizean Creole

Adjective

lee

1. little

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː/, [ˈle̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation^(key): lee

Noun

lee

1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)

   saaren lee ― lee of an island

Declension

Synonyms

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ele

Galician

Verb

lee

1. inflection of lear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Luxembourgish

Verb

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English lēogan.

Verb

lee

1. To lie; to speak falsely.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Northern Sotho

Noun

lee

1. egg

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ledd.

Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

References

• “lee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lee” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative lee/le)

1. Alternative form of lea

Scots

Alternative forms

• leh (Dundee)

Etymology

From Old English lēogan.

Verb

lee (third-person singular simple present lees, present participle leein, simple past leet, past participle leet)

1. To lie (tell lies).

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlee/ [ˈle.e]
• Rhymes: -ee
• Syllabification: le‧e

Verb

lee

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

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.ɪ/

Noun

lee class 5 (plural mae)

1. egg

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Alternative forms

• lidge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /lɪd͡ʒ/
• Homophones: laaye, lea, leigh, leeigh

Verb

lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth, simple past lidg'd)

1. to lie, lay

Etymology 2

Verb

lee

1. Alternative form of laave (“leave”)

References

• 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