lesse
See also: -lesse
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lesse (not comparable)
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From Old High German lesan.
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lesse (third-person singular present liss or lisst or less or lesst, past tense los, past participle jelesse or gelesse)
- (Ripuarian, eastern Moselle Franconian) to read
- Kanns de net lesse? Do steht et doch jeschrevve.
- Can't you read? It's written right there.
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lesse
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lesse
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ler
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lesse
- third-person singular past historic of leggere
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lesse
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From Old English lǣs, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”).
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lesse
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- “lē̆s(se, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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