leat

• leet

Probably from Middle English lete (“a meeting or intersection of roads; junction; crossroads; conduit”), from Old English ġelǣte (“a going out, ending, meeting”), as in Old English wæterġelǣt (“watercourse, aquaduct”), from Proto-Germanic *lētą, *galētą (“a letting, a letting out”). Cognate with Old High German gilāz (“outlet, exit, end, road junction”), German Gelaß (“back room, recess, private chamber”). Related to English let.

leat (plural leats)

1. An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
   • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:

     His paws rested on a sunken branch. The water moved down, clouded with the mud-stirrings of the leat. He lay so still that the trout returned to their stances beside the stone sterlings.

• teal, tael, et. al, atel-, LATE, late, TEAl, Elta, et al., TEAL, et al, Teal, tela, EATL, ETLA, tale

• IPA^(key): /lʲat̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /lʲæt̪ˠ/^[2]

leat (emphatic leatsa)

1. second-person singular of le: with you sg, to you sg

Inherited from Proto-Samic *leatēk (“to be”), from Proto-Uralic *le- (“to become”).

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈlea̯h(t)/

leat

1. to be
2. (possessor in locative case) to have, to possess
3. (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense, together with a past participle.

In the meaning "have", the thing possessed is in the nominative case, while the possessor is in the locative case.

• leahkit

• leahkin
• doppe leat
• leat lohpi

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): /læ͜ɑːt/

lēat

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of lūtan

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣто (lěto), from Proto-Slavic *lěto.

• IPA^(key): [le̯at]

leat n (plural leaturi)

1. (dated) year
2. (figurative) being of the same age
3. (dated) recruit

From Old Irish lat. Cognates include Irish leat and Manx lhiat.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /leʰt̪/, [le̞ʰt̪]^[1]
• (Uist, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /lɛht̪/^[2][3]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [læht̪]^[4]
• Hyphenation: leat

leat

1. second-person singular of le: with you; by you

• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382

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leat c (plural leaten, diminutive leatsje)

1. plant shoot

• “leat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011