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Lea vs Loa - What's the difference?

lea | loa |

As verbs the difference between lea and loa

is that lea is to tie, bind while loa is .

lea

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) legh, lege, lei "clearing, open ground" from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • an open field, meadow
  • *XIX century , Alfred Tennyson,
  • *:Two children in two neighbor villages
  • *:Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ;

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) lier, to bind

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
  • A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    loa

    English

    (wikipedia loa)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 714:
    • Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa'' (Haitian equivalent of ''orisha ) Dambala Wèdo.

    Anagrams

    * ----