leis
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leis
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]leis f pl
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]leis (strong nominative masculine singular leiser, comparative leiser, superlative am leisesten)
- (colloquial, poetic) Alternative form of leise
Further reading
[edit]- “leis” in Duden online
Irish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish les (“buttock, hip, haunch; buttocks, posterior”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leis f (genitive singular leise, nominative plural leasracha)
Declension
[edit]Declension of leis
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- leisíneach (“person with game leg; person with limping gait; tardy person”)
- leisíneacht (“limping gait; tardiness”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]leis (plus dative, triggers no mutation)
- form of le (“with”) used before the definite article
- leis an mbuachaill ― with the boy
- leis na cailíní ― with the girls
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]leis (emphatic leis-sean)
- third-person singular masculine of le
- D’oibrigh mé leis.
- I worked with him; I worked with it.
Adverb
[edit]leis
Synonyms
[edit]- (also): chomh maith, fosta, freisin
Etymology 3
[edit]From Old Irish leis (“uncovered, bare”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]leis
References
[edit]- (prepositional pronoun): Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume I, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 196
- (prepositional pronoun): de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 308
Old Occitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]leis
- emphatic oblique of ela: her
- c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, canso:
- Quar senes lieys non puesc viure [...].
- For without her I cannot live.
- c. 1160, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, vers:
- Qu'ilh val tant e m'es tan coraus, / Que ja de lieis no·m venra maus.
For she is worth so much and is such a part of my heart that no ill will ever come to me from her.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, canso:
Declension
[edit]Old Occitan personal pronouns and clitics
nominative | oblique | possessive (nom. obl.) | ||||
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direct object | indirect object | emphatic | ||||
singular | ||||||
1st person | eu, ieu ie (before enclitic) |
me, mi m', ·m |
meus meu | |||
2nd person | tu | te, ti ·t |
teus teu | |||
3rd person masculine | el | lo | li l', lh', ·l, ·lh |
lui | seus seu | |
3rd person feminine | ela | la | li l', lh', ·l, ·lh |
lei, leis | seus seu | |
3rd person reflexive | se, si s', ·s, ·is |
se, si s', ·s, ·is |
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plural | ||||||
1st person | nos ·ns |
nos ·ns |
nostre | |||
2nd person | vos ·us |
vos ·us, ·eus |
vostre | |||
3rd person masculine | il | los | els (after preposition) | lor | lor, lur | |
3rd person feminine | elas | las | elas (after preposition) | lor | lor, lur | |
3rd person reflexive | se, si s', ·s, ·is |
se, si s', ·s, ·is |
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: leis
Noun
[edit]leis
Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]leis
Verb
[edit]leis
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of lei
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish leiss. Cognates include Irish leis and Manx lesh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]leis (+ dative)
- Form of le used before a definite article.
Pronoun
[edit]leis
Inflection
[edit]Personal inflection of le | |||||||||
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Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
Singular | 1st | leam | leamsa | ||||||
2nd | leat | leatsa | |||||||
3rd m | leis | leis-san | |||||||
3rd f | leatha | leathase | |||||||
Plural | 1st | leinn | leinne | ||||||
2nd | leibh | leibhse | |||||||
3rd | leotha | leothasan |
References
[edit]- Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382
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