lez
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lez"
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lez
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Noun edit
lez (plural lezzes)
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Albanian edit
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Etymology edit
From fuller and dialectal lemzë, diminutive in -zë ~ ëz of dialectal lem (“birth; rise”), deverbative of lej (“to give birth”); the original meaning would have been ‘birthmark’.[1]
Noun edit
lez m (plural lezë, definite lezi, definite plural lezët)
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- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lez”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 220
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lez
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Inherited from Old French lez, from Late Latin latus (“next to, beside”), from Latin lātus (“side”).
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lez
- (obsolete) next to, near (still used in some place names)
- Saint-André-lez-Lille est une ville proche de Lille.
- Saint-André-lez-Lille is a town near Lille.
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Further reading edit
- “lez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology 1 edit
From Latin legit, third-person singular present active indicative of legō.
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- legg, lesg, lensg (Milanese classical orthography)
- lez (Brescian classical orthography)
- lès, les (Eastern modern orthographies)
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- (Modern Western) IPA(key): /ˈle(ŋ)dʒ/, [lɛ(ŋ)tʃ], [lɛ(t)ʃ]
- (Modern Eastern) IPA(key): /lez/, [lɛs]
- (Northern, Camunian) IPA(key): /lez/, [lɛʰ]
Verb edit
lez (first-person singular present indicative lezi, infinitive lèzer, past participle lezud)
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin lex, legem (“law”).
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- lesg (Milanese classical orthography)
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lez f (invariable)
- Alternative form of lege (“law”)
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lez oblique singular, m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lez)