English

leany

From lean + -y.

Formed from lean + -y

Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-

Proto-Germanic *hlināną ‘to lean, incline’

Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn ‘to lean’

Old English hleonian ‘to lean, recline, lie down, rest’

Middle English lenen ‘to lean’

English lean

Today it means

adj lean

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