lé
French
Etymology
From Old French lé (“wide, broad”, adjective), from Latin lātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le/
- Rhymes: -e
Noun
lé m (plural lés)
- (obsolete) breadth, width
- strip, length (of paper, textiles etc.)
Further reading
- “lé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Ugric *lämĭ, from Proto-Uralic *läme. Cognate with Finnish liemi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈleː]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -leː
Noun
lé (plural levek or lék)
- liquid
- Synonyms: folyadék, nedv
- juice
- Synonyms: gyümölcslé, dzsúsz
- gravy
- Synonyms: húslé, szaft
- (slang) dough, cabbage, bread, lolly, dosh (money)
- Synonyms: lóvé, dohány, steksz, zseton, zsozsó, zsé (all are slang terms, as opposed to pénz)
Declension
The accusative and the plural form can also be lét and lék, respectively, although the traditional way is with the lev- stem. (The sense “money” uses only the lét/lék form.)
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lé | levek |
| accusative | levet | leveket |
| dative | lének | leveknek |
| instrumental | lével | levekkel |
| causal-final | léért | levekért |
| translative | lévé | levekké |
| terminative | léig | levekig |
| essive-formal | léként | levekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | lében | levekben |
| superessive | lén | leveken |
| adessive | lénél | leveknél |
| illative | lébe | levekbe |
| sublative | lére | levekre |
| allative | léhez | levekhez |
| elative | léből | levekből |
| delative | léről | levekről |
| ablative | létől | levektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | léé | leveké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | lééi | levekéi |
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lé | lék |
| accusative | lét | léket |
| dative | lének | léknek |
| instrumental | lével | lékkel |
| causal-final | léért | lékért |
| translative | lévé | lékké |
| terminative | léig | lékig |
| essive-formal | léként | lékként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | lében | lékben |
| superessive | lén | léken |
| adessive | lénél | léknél |
| illative | lébe | lékbe |
| sublative | lére | lékre |
| allative | léhez | lékhez |
| elative | léből | lékből |
| delative | léről | lékről |
| ablative | létől | léktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | léé | léké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | lééi | lékéi |
| Possessive forms of lé | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | levem | leveim |
| 2nd person sing. | leved | leveid |
| 3rd person sing. | leve | levei |
| 1st person plural | levünk | leveink |
| 2nd person plural | levetek | leveitek |
| 3rd person plural | levük | leveik |
Derived terms
- leves
- almalé
- citromlé
- gyümölcslé
- halászlé
- húslé
- lédús
- léhűtő
- narancslé
- minden lében kanál
- olcsó húsnak híg a leve
Further reading
- lé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Anagrams
- él
Irish
Alternative forms
- léighe (superseded)
Verb
lé
- present subjunctive analytic of léigh
Preposition
lé (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)
- Superseded spelling of le.
Pronoun
lé (emphatic léise)
- Alternative spelling of léi: third-person singular feminine of le
Mwan
Postposition
lé
- with
Norman
| Norman Definite Articles | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| masculine | le / l' | les |
| feminine | la / l' | les |
Alternative forms
- l'
- eul (Cauchois)
Pronunciation
- (Jersey) IPA(key): /lɛː/
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Article
lé m (plural les)
- (Jersey) the masculine singular definite article
- 2013 March 1, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier, archived from the original on 13 March 2016, retrieved 17 October 2019, page 20:
- Dans les clios étout nou vait des tracteurs et des machinnes tandi qu'lé travas du fèrmyi r'prend san rhythme coumme tréjous.
- In the fields tractors and machines can be seen too as farm work picks up again as always.
- lé beurre ― the butter
- lé dgèrryi ― the warrior
- lé lait ― the milk
- lé sâbre ― the sword
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Coordinate terms
- (gender): la
Old French
Etymology
From Latin lātus.
Adjective
lé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lee)
- wide
Noun
lé m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lé)
- width
Descendants
- French: lé
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lewô, whence also Middle Low German lē, lēhe. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut”), whence also Ancient Greek λαῖον (laîon, “scythe”).
Noun
lé m
- scythe
Declension
The word declines as one would expect a weak masculine noun with the stem lé-, but is affected in late West Norse (but not in the Faroe Islands) in all forms except the nominative singular by the regular phonetic change éa > já. In the nominative the regular case ending -i is assimilated into the long é. This also causes awkward application of the suffixed article in the accusative and genitive singular, where one would normally expect its i to be elided in favour of the weak case ending -a (without the change éa > já, these would be *léann and *léans); the accusative singular with suffixed article is attested as ljáinn in Flateyjarbók (late 14th century). Note also that the forms may not all be attested.
| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | lé | léinn | ljár | ljárnir |
| accusative | ljá | ljáinn | ljá | ljána |
| dative | ljá | ljánum | ljám | ljánum |
| genitive | ljá | ljáins | ljá | ljánna |
Descendants
- Icelandic: ljár m
- Faroese: líggi m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ljå m
- Elfdalian: ljå m
- Old Swedish: lē, lie
- Swedish: lie c (m), lia c (m or even f), in dialects also le, lej, ljå, ljo, lö
- Danish: le c, (archaic) jå c
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lɛ˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [lɛ˨˩˦]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [lɛ˦˥]
Adjective
lé • (𥆼)
- cross-eyed
Derived terms
- lé xẹ (từ láy)