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Lear vs Leag - What's the difference?

lear | leag |

As nouns the difference between lear and leag

is that lear is something learned; a lesson while leag is an archaic spelling of lang=en.

As a verb lear

is to teach.

lear

English

Etymology 1

Noun

  • Something learned; a lesson.
  • Learning, lore; doctrine.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
  • * 1898 , (Francis James Child) (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy , from ,
    • They dressed up in maids' array,
    And passd for sisters fair;
    With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
    For to seek after lear .

    Etymology 2

    See (lere)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, archaic, and, Scotland) To teach.
  • (archaic) To learn.
  • * 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale , from ,
    • He hath take on him many a great emprise,
    Which were full hard for any that is here
    To bring about, but they of him it lear .

    Etymology 3

    See (lehr)

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • olive tree

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    leag

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Harry W. Duckworth , title=The English River Book: A North West Company Journal and Account Book of 1786 , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=McGill-Queens , isbn=9780773507142 , page=19 , passage=I found the hand & three others Indians the rest of the Canoes Camped 2 leags Below }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2000 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Harry S. Burrage , title=Gorges and the Grant of the Province of Maine 1622 , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Heritage Books , isbn=9780788413834 , page=81 , passage=… from the Illand of flowers beinge ten Leags South weste from ytt. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Joseph E. Garland , title=The Fish and the Falcon , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The History Press , isbn=9781596290075 , page=156 , passage=… E [by] S distant six Leags . }} ----