Likely a normalisation (-y) of earlier leak, leake, leke, from Middle English leke, from Old English hlec, *lec, from Proto-Germanic *lekaz; surface analysis as leak + -y. Cognate with Scots lek, leck, Saterland Frisian läk, Dutch lek, German Low German leck, German leck, Swedish läck, Icelandic lekur.
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