means A limb used for standing, walking, and bearing weight — in people and animals, and by extension the support of a table or chair, or one stage of a journey.

from From Old Norse 'leggr,' meaning a leg or bone of the limb, borrowed into English by Norse settlers who left their words scattered across the language like dropped tools. It largely shoved aside the older native English term 'shank,' which survives now mostly in the lower leg and in cuts of meat.