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| Word/prefix/suffix | meaning |
|---|---|
| Lan- | enclosure, church. |
| -law | mound, hill. |
| Lawn | an open space between woods, a stretch of closely cut carefully tended grass. |
| Lea | a meadow, land left untilled, pastureage. |
| Lee(s) | a place protected from the wind, shelter, the side furthest from the wind, a glade, calmness, tranquility. |
| Leigh | a glade. |
| Leys | variation of Lea - a tract of open ground, meadow, pasture or arable, also an obsolete form of 'Lee'. |
| Lin- | lake, pool. |
| Lis- | court, hall. |
| Llan | (Welsh) a church e.g. Llanddewi - Church of St. David. |
| Llwyn | (Welsh) a grove. |
| Llyn | (Welsh) a lake or pool e.g. Llyn Hir - long lake. |
| Llys | court. |
| Loch | lake (Scottish). |
| Lodge | a small country house, a cottage at the entrance to an estate, an American Indian's tent, the den of a beaver or otter. |
| Lough | as for loch (Gaelic). |
| -low | mound, hill. |
| Lyn(n) | lake, pool. |
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