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leja

“leja” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. low area, low place, below (place located below, with respect to something else)
  2. lower side, lower part, bottom (of something)
  3. down, below, at the bottom, in a lower area (of some place)
  4. valley
  5. depression in an area or terrain
  6. mouth, estuary
  7. down, downward, toward the earth (also metaphorically)

Etymology

From earlier (19th-century) leija, from Proto-Baltic *ley-ya-, from *ley-ā, from Proto-Indo-European *l̥-ey, from the zero grade of *el-, *Heh₃l- (“to bend, to incline”) (whence also elkonis (“elbow”), q.v.) with a suffix -ey. The meaning probably evolved as follows: “bent inward” > “inwardly bent earth”, “valley” > “lower area.” Cognates include Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰 (undarleija, “lower, smaller”),…

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