-leas
See also: Appendix:Variations of "leas"
Middle English
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-leas
- (Early Middle English) alternative form of -les
Old English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *-laus. Synchronically, from lēas (“false, devoid of, free from, without”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-lēas
Declension
[edit]Declension of -lēas — Strong
Declension of -lēas — Weak
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: -les, -las, -lasse, -læs, -leas, -lease, -leæs, -lees, -lese, -lesse, -lez, -lies, -liese, -lis, -lise, -lyas, -lyese
West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian -lās, from Proto-West Germanic *-laus, from Proto-Germanic *-lausaz.
Cognate with Danish -løs, Dutch -loos, English -less, German -los.
Suffix
[edit]-leas
Derived terms
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- Middle English alternative forms
- Early Middle English
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₁-
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English suffixes
- West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian
- West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian
- West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- West Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- West Frisian lemmas
- West Frisian suffixes
- West Frisian adjective-forming suffixes