Lea
/liː/noun
A meadow or grassy open field.
Did you know?Lea comes from a very old Germanic word for a clearing, and it survives in countless place-names like Beverley, Henley, and Wakefield’s ancient landscape names.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*lauhaz
“a clearing or open place”
Old English
OE
lēah
“woodland clearing, meadow, open ground”
Middle English
ME
lea
“a meadow or grassy field”
Modern English
English
lea
“a meadow or open field”