Where does “leazings” come from?
leazings (English) comes from English leazing, from English leaze, from English lease, from English leash, from Middle English leesshe, from Middle English lees, from Old French lesse, from Latin laxa — to let go; weak, feeble; loose; dissolute, lewd;...
leazings (English): Ears of corn picked up from the fields after the...
Definitions
- Ears of corn picked up from the fields after the...
Ancestry of “leazings”, step by step
leazings traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English leazing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | leazing | present participle of leaze |
| 2 | English | leaze | Alternative form of lease |
| 3 | English | lease | To gather; To pick, select, pick out; to pick up;... |
| 4 | English | leash | A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an... |
| 5 | Middle English | leesshe | — |
| 6 | Middle English | lees | — |
| 7 | Old French | lesse | — |
| 8 | Latin | laxa | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 9 | Latin | laxo | I extend, expand; I open, make wide; I undo,... |
| 10 | Latin | laxus | wide, spacious, roomy; yielding; loose, slack,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)lēg- | to let go; weak, feeble; loose; dissolute, lewd;... |
via English S
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | S | The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this... |