noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, serious, terrible ▪ complete, total ▪ common, widespread ▪ simple

(n.) O.E. leah open field, meadow, piece of untilled ground, earlier læch, recorded in place names, from P.Gmc. *laukhaz (Cf. O.H.G. loh cluster of bushes, and probably also Flem. loo, which forms the second element in Waterloo), from PIE *louquo