Talk:ley

RFV
Old English ? Leasnam (talk) 18:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The same contributor (Top Cat 14) also created leag, which is equally dubious (the g appears in inflected forms of leah, not the lemma).There's no evidence they knew any Old English at all. The y would have to have the same sound as modern y in order to be a variant of Old English g, but I have my doubts that y was used as a consonant/semivowel at all in Old English, and as a vowel it was only the umlated u, as far as I know.
 * Searching Google Books with Þe and ðe used to narrow it down to Old English texts just turns up scannos and the Middle English counterpart of lye, law and lay- not conclusive but strongly suggestive that this is wrong. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:22, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Failed (and I'm removing too, to be on the safe side). —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 08:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Ley is (also) a German word for "crag" or "rock"...
"The Richelsley, also written Richel Ley, is an 80-metre-long and up to 12-metre-high rock formation on the edge of the High Fens, part of the Eifel Mountains, in Belgium. It bears a large cross and is a well known pilgrimage site. Ley is a German word for "crag" or "rock"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richelsley