See also: lesi-, leśi, leşi, leşî, and le si

Hungarian

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Etymology

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les (to spy, peep, peek) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛʃi]
  • Hyphenation: le‧si
  • Rhymes: -ʃi

Verb

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lesi

  1. third-person singular indicative present definite of les

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch lesie, laesie (lesion), from Latin laesiō (injury).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ləˈsi]
  • Hyphenation: lê‧si

Noun

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lêsi (plural lesi-lesi, first-person possessive lesiku, second-person possessive lesimu, third-person possessive lesinya)

  1. lesion,
    1. (medicine) a wound or injury.
    2. (medicine) an infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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lesi m pl

  1. masculine plural of leso

Adjective

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lesi m pl

  1. masculine plural of leso

References

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  1. ^ leso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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lesi

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of lesa

Participle

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lesi

  1. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of lesen
  2. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of lesen

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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lesi

  1. dative/locative singular of leha

Southern Ndebele

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

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lesi

  1. this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

Swazi

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

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lesi

  1. this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

Tongan

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Etymology

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Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian weleti, from the ship General Wellesley named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, which brought papayas from Penang and landed in Vanua Levu as part of the sandalwood trade in October 1808. Cognate with Samoan ʻesi.[1]

Noun

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lesi

  1. papaya.

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  1. ^ Langdon, Robert (1989 April) “The Secret History of the Papaw in the South Pacific: An Essay in Reconstruction”, in The Journal of Pacific History[1], volume 24, number 1, pages 3-20

Zulu

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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lesi

  1. this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

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Stem -lési
Full form lési
Locative kulesi
Full form lési
Locative kulesi
Copulative yilesi
Possessive forms
Modifier Substantive
Class 1 walesi owalesi
Class 2 balesi abalesi
Class 3 walesi owalesi
Class 4 yalesi eyalesi
Class 5 lalesi elalesi
Class 6 alesi awalesi
Class 7 salesi esalesi
Class 8 zalesi ezalesi
Class 9 yalesi eyalesi
Class 10 zalesi ezalesi
Class 11 lwalesi olwalesi
Class 14 balesi obalesi
Class 15 kwalesi okwalesi
Class 17 kwalesi okwalesi

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