What is the name meaning of LEY. Phrases containing LEY
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English
English : variant spelling of Layland.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a field that was untilled or used for pasture, from Middle English leye ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’, ‘fallow’ + feld ‘open country’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Leyfield in Nottinghamshire, which has the same meaning.
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English
Variant spelling of English Layton, LEYTON means "leek garden."
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English
English : habitational name from any of three places in Essex – Layer Breton, Layer de la Haye, and Layer Marney – all named from a river name, Leire, or from Leire in Leicestershire, also named from an identical river name. The river name is of Celtic origin and is probably the base of the tribal name Ligore, found in the place name Leicester.English : nickname or status name from Anglo-Norman French le eyr ‘the heir’. Compare Ayer.English : occupational name for a stone layer, Middle English leyer; the job of the layer was to position the stones worked by the masons.German : habitational name for someone from any of the various placed named Lay, in the Rhineland and Bavaria.
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Americanized spelling of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29
Americanized spelling of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29 : 16) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.English : from a medieval personal name, a diminutive of Lawrence. Compare Law 1 and Larkin.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from Fagley in West Yorkshire, so named from a dialect word feg ‘coarse grass’ + leye ‘pasture’.Altered spelling of South German Vögele, Vögeli (see Voegele) or of Vög(e)ler (see Vogeler).
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from Leyland in Lancashire (recorded in Domesday Book as Lailand), or from Laylands in Yorkshire; both are named from Old English lǣge ‘untilled ground’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’. In some cases the name may be topographical.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye.Americanized spelling of German Lehmann.German : variant of Lay 3.
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English
English : habitational name from Leyburn in North Yorkshire, so named from an uncertain first element (possibly Old English hlēg ‘shelter’) + Old English burna ‘stream’. Leybourne in Kent, which is named from an Old English personal name Lytta + burna, may also have contributed to the surname to some extent, although it is a predominantly northern name.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields’, ‘arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (Old English lǣs).English : habitational name from Leece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from Old English lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural of lēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably named with a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall’, ‘court’, ‘the principal house in a district’.English : variant spelling of Leece 1.Scottish : reduced form of Gillies.Scottish and Irish : reduced and altered form of McLeish.Dutch : variant of Leys.
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English : variant of Lye.French : habitational name from Ley in Moselle.French and German : from a medieval personal name, Eloy (Latin Eligius, a derivative of eligere ‘to choose or elect’), made popular by a 6th-century saint who came to be venerated as the patron of smiths and horses.German (Rhineland) : topographic name from Middle High German leie ‘rock’, ‘stone’, ‘slate’, or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word. Compare Leier.
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English
English : variant of Layman.
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Native American
Native American Miwok name LEYATI means "shaped like an abalone shell."
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English
English : from an Old Norse personal name or nickname, Leysingi, from leysingi ‘freedman’. Compare Lazenby.South German : habitational name from Leising in Bavaria.
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English
English : habitational name from Mawdesley in Lancashire, named in Middle English with the Anglo-Norman French female personal name Maud + Middle English ley ‘clearing’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Layton.Galician and Portuguese : perhaps a variant spelling of Leitón, or Leitã (Galacian) a nickname meaning ‘suckling pig’.
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Ukrainian
, defender of man.
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English
English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French l’eveske ‘the bishop’ (see Bishop).English : from the Middle English personal name Lefeke, Old English Lēofeca, a derivative of Lēofa (see Leaf).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish Leyvik, a pet form of the personal name Leyvi, itself a pet form of the Biblical name Levi (see Levy).
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English hauk, hauek ‘hawk’ + ley(e) ‘open country’, ‘grassland’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Hawkesley Hall in King’s Norton, Worcestershire, named from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’, ‘clearing’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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v. t.
To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
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See Lye.
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Grass or meadow land; a lea.
v. t.
A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
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Leisure.
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Law.
v. t. & i.
To lay; to wager.
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One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
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Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
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Fallow; unseeded.