leeigh

Yola

Alternative forms

• leigh

Etymology

From Middle English leighȝen, from Old English hlæhhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/
• Homophones: lea, lee, leigh

Verb

leeigh (present participle leeigheen or leigheen or leighen)

1. to laugh
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     At skelpearès an slaugheardhès mye leeigh aar oer vill.

     That the piglings and pigs may laugh their overfill.

Derived terms

• lacheny (“laughing”)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52