lé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "le"

Franco-Provençal

Noun

lé (Fribourgeois)

1. Alternative form of lèc (“lake”)

References

• lac in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French lé (“wide, broad”, adjective), from Latin lātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e

Noun

lé m (plural lés)

1. (obsolete) breadth, width
2. 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-Uralic *läme. Cognate with Finnish liemi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈleː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -leː

Noun

lé (plural levek or lék) (the latter is mostly proscribed)

1. liquid

   Synonyms: folyadék, nedv

2. juice

   Synonyms: gyümölcslé, dzsúsz

3. gravy

   Synonyms: húslé, szaft

4. (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 might 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

 

Compound words

• almalé
• citromlé
• gyümölcslé
• halászlé
• húslé
• lédús
• léhűtő
• narancslé
• szőlőlé

 

Expressions

• 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”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams

• él

Irish

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• léighe (superseded)

Verb

lé

1. present subjunctive analytic of léigh

Etymology 2

Preposition

lé (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)

1. Superseded spelling of le.

Pronoun

lé (emphatic léise)

1. Alternative spelling of léi: third-person singular feminine of le

Mwan

Postposition

lé

1. 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)

1. (Jersey) the masculine singular definite article

   lé beurre ― the butter

   lé dgèrryi ― the warrior

   lé lait ― the milk

   lé sâbre ― the sword

   • 2013 March, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 March 2016, 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.

Coordinate terms

• (gender): la

Old Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈlɛː/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈlɛː/

Verb

lé

1. third-person singular present of líti

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lātus.

Adjective

lé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lee)

1. wide

Noun

lé oblique singular, m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lé)

1. 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 (genitive ljá, plural ljár)

1. 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.

  Declension of lé (weak an-stem)

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˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lɛ˦˥]

Adjective

lé • (𥆼)

1. cross-eyed

Derived terms

Derived terms

• lé xẹ (từ láy)