Noun: lee
Sample Sentences
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the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
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We lurked under lee. [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:]
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Desiring me to take shelter in his lee. [1873, John Tyndall, “Niagara”, in Fragments of Science, published 1907, page 182:]
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He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like lee
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”)). See: Middle English Nouns '
lee', German Nouns '
Lee', Danish Nouns '
læ', Old Norse Nouns '
hlé', Dutch Nouns '
lij'.
Verbs referencing "lee"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
le, German Nouns
Lee, Danish Nouns
læ, Faroese Nouns
læ.