clay, mud; e.g. the Leam (the muddy river); Leamington (the town on the R. Leam); Lehmhurst (the clayey wood); Lambourn (muddy brook); Leemkothen (the mud huts).
LEITER (Gadhelic),
the slope of a hill; e.g. Ballater, in Aberdeenshire (the town on the sloping hill); Letterfearn (the alder-tree slope); Letterfourie (the grassy hillside, feurach); Findlater (the cold hill-slope, fionn), in Scotland. In Ireland: Letterkenny (the hill-slope of the O’Cannons); Letterkeen (beautiful hill-slope); Lettermullen (Meallan’s hill-slope); Letterbrick (the badger’s hill-slope); Letterlickey (the hill-slope of the flagstone); Letherhead, in Surrey (at the head of the slope, Welsh llethr), on the declivitous bank of the R. Mole; Machynlleth for Mach-yn-Llethr (the ridge on the slope), a town in Montgomery.
LEOD (A.S.), LEUTE (Ger.),
the people; e.g. Leutkirch (the people’s church); Liège, Ger. Lüttich, anc. Leodicus-vicus (the people’s town)—the hill on which the citadel stands was called Publes-mont (the people’s hill); Leeds, in Yorkshire, anc. Loidis (the people’s town, according to Bayley); Whittaker, however, makes it the town of Loidi, a personal name); but Leeds, in Kent, is said to have been named after Ledian, the Chancellor of Ethelred II.
LESSO, LESSE (Sclav.),
a wood or thicket; e.g. Lessau, Leske, Leskau, Lessen, Lissa (the woody place), towns in Prussia; Leschnitz, in Silesia, and Leizig, in Saxony, with the same meaning; Leschkirch (the church in the wood), in Transylvania; Liezegorike (woody hill).
LEUCUS (Grk.),
white, e.g. Leuctra, Leuctron, Leucadia, so named from the white rocks at its extremity; Leucasia (the white river); Leucate (the white promontory in Greece).
LEY, LEA (A.S.),
LEG,