lee

Abbreviation of English Lyélé.

lee

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lyélé.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lyélé terms

• IPA^(key): /liː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: le, lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw (whence also Proto-Slavic *xlěvъ), 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”)).

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.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     We lurked under lee.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1873, John Tyndall, “Niagara”, in Fragments of Science, published 1907, page 182:

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

4. Calm, peace.

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

lee (not comparable)

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

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
   • 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or The Man of the World Answered. In which are Considered, the Love of This Life; the Ambition and Pleasure, with the Wit and Wisdom, of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 264:

     A thousand demons lurk within the lee.

lee (plural lees)

1. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).
   • 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, page 184:

     Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]

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

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

• ELE, eel

Cognates include Saho lay.

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

lée f (plural lelwá f)

1. water

• 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

lee

1. little

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

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

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

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

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

• ele

lee

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

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

lee

1. alternative form of lien (“to tell a falsehood”)

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

lee

1. egg

From ledd.

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

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

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

1. alternative form of lea

• laee, lǽ

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲe.e/

lee

1. third-person singular feminine accusative of la

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 32^b6

  hú⟨a⟩naib aitreb­thidib Acrisión­daib: a­ mmuntar sidi ad·rothreb­-si lee, it hé con·rót­gatar in­ cathraig

  by the Acrisian inhabi­tants: her household whom she had with her, it is they who built the city

  (literally, “…whom she possessed…”)

• leh (Dundee)

From Old English lēogan.

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

1. To lie (tell lies).
   • 1876, S[arah] R. Whitehead, “On the Wrong Coach”, in Daft Davie and Other Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 220:

     ‘It’s a lee,’ says the man; ‘she’s either drunk or daft.’ / ‘Me drunk, you ill-tongued vagabond!’ says my Auntie Kirsty, who couldna bear such a reproach on her good name, ‘I’m a’ but blackfasting this day from either meat or drink; you had better no meddle wi’ my character.’

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

lee

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.ɪ/

lee class 5 (plural mae)

1. egg

Somehow from Proto-Finnic *leet'ek. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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

lee

1. sandbank, shoal

   Synonym: leete

Declension of lee (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lee	leed
genitive	lee	leije
partitive	leete	leite
illative	lehhe, lehese	leise
inessive	leez	leiz
elative	leesse	leisse
allative	leele	leile
adessive	leelle	leille
ablative	leelte	leilte
translative	leessi	leissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “lee”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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

• lidge

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /lɪd͡ʒ/

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

1. to lie, lay

lee

1. alternative form of laave (“leave”)

• 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