leas

• Rhymes: -iːz

leas

1. plural of lea

• ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, sale, seal, sela

leas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of ler
2. second-person singular present indicative of lear

From Old Irish less (“benefit, profit”).

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲasˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲæsˠ/

leas m (genitive singular leasa)

1. interest
2. welfare, well-being
3. benefit

• (interest): sainleas
• (benefit): sochar, tairbhe, buntáiste

• féinleas (“self-interest”)
• leasaigh (“to amend, reform, improve; to cure, preserve, dress, curry; to dress, manure, fertilize”)
• leasmhar (“interested”)

leās

1. accusative plural of lea

leas

1. alternative form of lesse

• IPA^(key): /læ͜ɑːs/

From Proto-West Germanic *laus (“loose, free, vacant”). Akin to Old Norse lauss, German los (“loose, free”). More at -less, loose.

lēas (comparative lēasra, superlative lēasost)

1. false
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þā besēah Martinus wið þǣs sċeoccan lēoht, ġemyndiġ on mōde hū sē Metoda Drihten cwæð on his godspelle þe his godcundan tōcyme, and cwæð tō ðām lēasan mid ġelǣredum mūðe, "Ne sǣde ūre Hǣlend þæt hē swā wolde bēon mid purpuran gehīwod, oððe mid helme scīnende, þonne hē eft cōme mid engla ðrymme." Đā fordwān sē deofol drēoriġ him fram, and sēo stōw ðā stanc mid ormǣtum stenċe, æfter andwerdnysse þǣs eġeslīċan gāstes.

     Then Martinus beheld the demon's light, mindful of what the Lord God said in his gospel about his divine coming, and said to the false one with learned mouth, "Our Savior did not say that he would be habited in purple, or that he would have a shining crown, when he came again with a host of angels." Then the sad devil disappeared, and the place stank with a powerful stench after the presence of the horrible spirit.

2. devoid of, free from
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Ȳþde swā þisne eardġeard · ælda Sċyppend
     oþþæt burgwara · breahtma lēase
     eald enta ġeweorc · īdlu stōdon.

     Thus, Creator of men was destroying this world
     until works of old giants, lacking of
     citizens' noises, stood empty.

3. bereft of; without
   • The Old English rune poem

     ᛒ byþ blēda lēas...

     Birch is without fruit...

4. vain, worthless

lēas n

1. falsehood, lie
2. mistake

Strong a-stem:

• lēasian (“to lie”)
• lēasettan (“to pretend”)
• lēasere
• lēascræft (“deceit, art of lying”)
• lēaslīċ

• English: -less, lease, leasing

see lēah.

lēas

1. plural of lēah

From Old Irish less (“benefit, profit”).

• IPA^(key): /ʎes/

leas m

1. benefit, advantage

   cha leig thu leas a bhith a' gàireachdainn ― you don't have to laugh; it wouldn't benefit you to laugh

• IPA^(key): /ˈleas/ [ˈle.as]
• Rhymes: -eas
• Syllabification: le‧as

leas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of leer