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lech
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English
Etymology 1
Back-formation from lecher.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Noun
lech (plural leches)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)
- (slang) To behave lecherously.
Etymology 2
From Welsh llech (“slate, slab”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛk
Noun
lech (plural lechs)
Anagrams
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Old Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lęxъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
lech m pers
- chief (leader or co-leader of a tribe)
Declension
Declension of lech (hard o-stem)
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Further reading
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “lech”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
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Old Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
lech f (usually uncountable)
- apocopic form of leche, milk
- c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.
- […] e di apparecim ati. por enpararle de mano de los egipcios. por ſacarlo deſta tiera. E leuarlo ala tierra buena ⁊ ampla. Q̃ mana lech. ⁊ miel. […]
- “ […] And say, ‘I have appeared to you to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians [and] to bring them out of that land and take them to the land good and broad that flows with milk and honey.’ […] ”
- c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
lech
- soft mutation of llech (“slate”)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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