lech

Back-formation from lecher.

• letch

• IPA^(key): /lɛt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

lech (plural leches)

1. (slang) A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
2. (slang) A lecher.

lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)

1. (slang) To behave lecherously.

From Welsh llech (“slate, slab”).

• IPA^(key): /lɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

lech (plural lechs)

1. The capstone of a cromlech.

• Chel, HELC

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lęxъ.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈlɛx/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈlɛx/

lech m pers

1. chief (leader or co-leader of a tribe)

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “lech”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

• IPA^(key): /ˈlet͡ʃ/

lech f (usually uncountable)

1. apocopic form of leche, milk
   • c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.

     […] e di apparecim ati. por enpararle de mano de los egipcios. por ſacarlo deſta tiera. E leuarlo ala tierra buena ⁊ ampla. Q̃ mana lech. ⁊ miel. […]

     “ […] And say, ‘I have appeared to you to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians [and] to bring them out of that land and take them to the land good and broad that flows with milk and honey.’ […] ”

• IPA^(key): /leːχ/

lech

1. soft mutation of llech (“slate”)