leach
English
/liːtʃ/
noun
Definitions
- A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- (nautical) (alternative spelling of) leech.
- A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English leche (physician, blood-sucking worm, sluggish stream, doctor, leachate) inherited from Old English *lǣċ inherited from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (flow, drain, a leak) derived from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (gather, collect, leak, select, pick out, drain, speak).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*leǵ-
Gloss
gather, collect, leak, select, pick out, drain, speak
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Cognates and derived terms
- -lect English
- Letcher English
- haplogy English
- intelligible English
- leachability English
- leachable English
- leachant English
- leachate English
- leacher English
- leachtub English
- leachy English
- leech English
- leechbook English
- lexicography English
- tub English
- *exēligere Latin
- colligō Latin
- delegationis, delegatio Latin
- diligentem Latin
- dīlēctus Latin
- electrix Latin
- intellectus Latin
- intellego Latin
- intellegēns, intelligens Latin
- intellegō Latin
- lectus Latin
- legio Latin
- legiō Latin
- legō Latin
- lēx, lēgem Latin
- ēligere Latin
- codicologia Italian
- -λογία Ancient Greek
- -λογῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- -λόγος Ancient Greek
- λέγω Ancient Greek
- λεξικόν Ancient Greek
- λεξικὸν βιβλίον Ancient Greek
- λογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- λογεῖον Ancient Greek
- λογικός Ancient Greek
- λογισμός Ancient Greek
- λογιστικός Ancient Greek
- λογομαχία Ancient Greek
- λόγιον Ancient Greek
- λόγος Ancient Greek
- συλλογίζομαι Ancient Greek
- συλλογισμός Ancient Greek
- ἀστρολόγος Ancient Greek
- *-i-eh₂, *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *leg- Proto-Indo-European
- *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *polh₁ús Proto-Indo-European
- *srew- Proto-Indo-European
- eleger Portuguese
- *lakjaną Proto-Germanic
- *lakō Proto-Germanic
- *lekaną Proto-Germanic
- *lēkijō Proto-Germanic
- *lǣċ Old English
- fisclacu Old English
- geondleccan Old English
- lacu Old English
- leċċan Old English
- lǣċe Old English
- lake Middle English
- leche Middle English
- leka Old Norse
- zgjedh Albanian
- zgledh Albanian
- *laku gmw-pro
- *lekan Old Dutch
- *to- Proto-Celtic
- *legō Proto-Italic
- *luke- Proto-Uralic
- läk- Tocharian B
- läk- Tocharian A