Etymology

leasing

leas·ing
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Today it means: A lie; the act of lying, falsehood. Full definition →

Middle English lesing ← Old English lēasung ← Proto-West Germanic *lausungu
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leasing · noun1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*lausungō
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*lausungu
  3. Old English · inherited fromlēasung“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromlesing
  5. English todayleasing

From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).

leasing · verb2

  1. Middle English · inherited fromlesing
  2. English todayleasing

From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) + -ing.

leasing · verb, noun3

From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.

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