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Letten.

loam, clay

6 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlɛ.tən//ˈlɛ.tn̩/Germany/ˈlɛ.tɛn//ˈlɛ.tn̩/Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland
  1. loam, clay

    masculine · strong
  2. mud, muck

    Austria · Bavaria · colloquial · masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German lette, from Old High German letto, from Proto-Germanic *ladjō-, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂t- (“moist, wet”). Cognate with Icelandic leðja (“mud, muck”), Welsh llaid (“mire”), Lithuanian latakas (“gutter”), and possibly Latin latex.

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