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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /lɛd͡ʒ/
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• Australian: /led͡ʒ/
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• homophone: lege
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• rhymes with -ɛdʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: L EH1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legh- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.

Shortening of legislature.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: vora — a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface
• Chinese Mandarin: 边沿 (biānyán) — a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface
• French: rebord — a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface
• Portuguese: borda — a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface
• Spanish: cornisa — a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface
• Spanish: saliente — a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface
• Bulgarian: полица (polica) — shelf
• Catalan: relleix — shelf
• Catalan: lleixa — shelf
• Catalan: prestatge — shelf
• Chinese Mandarin: 壁架 (bìjià) — shelf
• Finnish: hylly — shelf
• Finnish: otsikko — shelf
• French: (in joinery) épaulement — shelf
• Galician: mesado — shelf
• German: Bord — shelf
• German: Regalbrett — shelf
• German: Sims — shelf
• German: (protruding part of a façade) Sims — shelf
• German: Mauervorsprung — shelf
• German: Mauerabsatz — shelf
• Hungarian: párkány — shelf
• Hungarian: polc — shelf
• Hungarian: szegély — shelf
• Hungarian: él — shelf
• Italian: mensola — shelf
• Italian: ripiano — shelf
• Italian: scaffale — shelf
• Portuguese: prateleira — shelf
• Portuguese: armário — shelf
• Romanian: poliță — shelf
• Russian: по́лка (pólka) — shelf
• Scottish Gaelic: oir — shelf
• Ottoman Turkish: راف (raf) — shelf
• Bulgarian: риф (rif) — of rocks
• Bulgarian: шелф (šelf) — of rocks
• Catalan: cornisa — of rocks
• Catalan: relleix — of rocks
• Finnish: kieleke — of rocks
• Finnish: kallionkieleke — of rocks
• Finnish: uloke — of rocks
• Finnish: (reef) karikko — of rocks
• Finnish: riutta — of rocks
• French: corniche — of rocks
• French: vire — of rocks
• German: Sims — of rocks
• German: Band — of rocks
• German: Felsband — of rocks
• German: Felsvorsprung — of rocks
• German: Vorsprung — of rocks
• German: Kante — of rocks
• German: Platte — of rocks
• German: Felsplatt — of rocks
• German: Stufe — of rocks
• German: Überhang — of rocks
• German: Rücken — of rocks
• Hungarian: szirt — of rocks
• Hungarian: sziklaszirt — of rocks
• Hungarian: sziklapárkány — of rocks
• Italian: cengia — of rocks
• Italian: stralpo — of rocks
• Italian: balza — of rocks
• Russian: вы́ступ (výstup) — of rocks
• Russian: усту́п (ustúp) — of rocks
• Russian: край (kraj) — of rocks
• Spanish: saliente — of rocks
• Spanish: cornisa — of rocks
• Bulgarian: тераса (terasa) — layer
• Finnish: kerros — layer
• Finnish: kerrostuma — layer
• French: couche — layer
• German: Lage — layer
• German: Schicht — layer
• Italian: strato — layer
• Portuguese: camada — layer
• Russian: шельф (šelʹf) — layer
• Russian: слой (sloj) — layer
• Bulgarian: жила (žila) — lode
• Dutch: ader — lode
• Dutch: ertslaag — lode
• Finnish: mineraalisuoni — lode
• Finnish: malmisuoni — lode
• Finnish: suoni — lode
• German: Ader — lode
• German: Schicht — lode
• Italian: filone — lode
• Russian: за́лежь (záležʹ) — lode
• Russian: пласт (plast) — lode
• Catalan: dintell — lintel
• Finnish: kamana — lintel
• French: linteau — lintel
• German: Sturz — lintel
• Bulgarian: корниз (korniz) — cornice
• Catalan: imposta — cornice
• Finnish: reunalista — cornice
• Finnish: korniisi — cornice
• Finnish: kattolista — cornice
• French: corniche — cornice
• German: Gesims — cornice
• Romanian: cornișă — cornice
• Spanish: imposta — cornice