leswe

leswe

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

PIE root
*leh₁d-

From the oblique forms of Old English lǣs, lēs,[1][2][3] from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu and thus a doublet of lese. Early Scots lesour has been remodelled after pasture.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛzwə/, /ˈlɛzɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈlɛzuː/, /ˈlɛ̝ːz-/
  • IPA(key): /ˈlizwə/, /ˈlizɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈlizuː/, /ˈleːz-/ (from Anglian Old English lēs)
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛziu̯(ə)/ (especially Kent, Southern, South Midland)

Noun

leswe (plural leswes or (early) leswen)

  1. Pasture; land for grazing livestock.
  2. Grass or other plants eaten by livestock.

Descendants

  • English: leasow
  • Middle Scots: lesoue; lesour, leasure
    • Scots: lizour, lizur (obsolete)

References

  1. ^ “lēswe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “leasow, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ^ “lesour, lesur(e, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
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