lé
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French lé (“wide, broad”, adjective), from Latin lātus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lé m (plural lés)
Further reading edit
- “lé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Uralic *läme. Cognate with Finnish liemi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lé (plural levek or lék) (the latter is mostly proscribed)
Declension edit
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 edit
Further reading edit
- 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 edit
Irish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
- léighe (superseded)
Verb edit
lé
- present subjunctive analytic of léigh
Etymology 2 edit
Preposition edit
lé (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)
Pronoun edit
lé (emphatic léise)
- Alternative spelling of léi: third-person singular feminine of le
Mwan edit
Postposition edit
lé
Norman edit
| Norman Definite Articles | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| masculine | le / l' | les |
| feminine | la / l' | les |
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Article edit
lé m (plural les)
- (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 edit
- (gender): la
Old Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lé
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
lé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lee)
Noun edit
lé oblique singular, m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lé)
Descendants edit
- French: lé
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
lé m (genitive ljá, plural ljár)
Declension edit
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.