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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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lea

/liː/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of lee leigh

Forms leas leigh ley lay

  1. noun An open field, meadow, pasture.
  2. noun Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
  3. noun A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
  4. proper noun A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
  5. proper noun An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
  6. proper noun A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
  7. proper noun A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
  8. proper noun A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6521).
  9. proper noun A village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4930).
  10. proper noun A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
  11. proper noun A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
  12. proper noun A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, merged into Doddington and District civil parish in 2023.

Synonyms

rap pasture pastureland grazing land ley

Etymology

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), 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 (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”).

From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).

From Old English lēa, the dative case of lēah (“meadow”).

Inherited from Old English Lyġe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. "Plow-torn leas." Shak.

Etymology [Cf. Lay, n. (that which is laid), 4.]

Etymology [OE. ley, lay, As. leáh, leá; akin to Prov. G. lon bog, morass, grove, and perh. to L. lucus grove, E. light, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “lea”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details