Leeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 lee, from 古期英語 hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw (whence also Proto-Slavic *xlěvъ), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

名詞

lee (plural lees)

1. (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     We lurked under lee.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1873, John Tyndall, “Niagara”, in Fragments of Science, published 1907, page 182:

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

4. Calm, peace.

反意語

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

派生語

形容詞

lee (not comparable)

1. (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

派生語

語源 2

名詞

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
   • 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or The Man of the World Answered. In which are Considered, the Love of This Life; the Ambition and Pleasure, with the Wit and Wisdom, of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 264:

     A thousand demons lurk within the lee.

語源 3

名詞

lee (plural lees)

1. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).
   • 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, page 184:

     Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]

Further reading

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “lee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

参考

• on one's lee-lane (probably etymologically unrelated)

アナグラム

• ELE, eel