leak – English noun declension

English noun forms of leak

Noun: leak
Singularleak
Pluralleaks

Sample Sentences

  • a leak in a roof
  • a leak in a boat
  • a leak in a gas pipe
  • The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  • The babies' diapers had big leaks.
  • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
  • […] so even if he was the leak, we would never know. [2015, Leena Ching, Scandalous, Purple Diamond Publishing:]
  • I was the leak. That the government didn't like our advice, and so I decided to leak it to 'bounce' them into having to follow it. [2024, Tony Holohan, We Need to Talk: A Memoir:]
  • If he was the leak, it wasn't intentional. The same went for her mom, not that Cat thought her mom had any friends with top-level security clearance. [2024, MarcyKate Connolly, Kathryn Holmes, The Thirteenth Circle:]
  • resource leak
  • memory leak
  • I have to take a leak.

Etymology

1. From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak”).
2. Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
3. (divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)). See: Old English Nouns '*lecan', Old Norse Nouns 'leka', Swedish Nouns 'läcka', Old English Nouns 'leċċan'.

Verbs referencing "leak"

Old Norse Nouns leki.