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lá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "la"

Faroese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

lá

  1. first/third-person singular past of at liggja

Conjugation Edit

Conjugation of liggja (irregular)
infinitive liggja
supine ligið
participle (a26)1 liggjandi ligin
present past
first singular liggi lá
second singular liggur lást
third singular liggur lá
plural liggja lógu
imperative
singular ligg!
plural liggið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Hungarian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈlaː]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -laː

Noun Edit

 
solmisation

lá (plural lák)

  1. la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale
    Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, ti

Declension Edit

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lá lák
accusative lát lákat
dative lának láknak
instrumental lával lákkal
causal-final láért lákért
translative lává lákká
terminative láig lákig
essive-formal láként lákként
essive-modal lául —
inessive lában lákban
superessive lán lákon
adessive lánál láknál
illative lába lákba
sublative lára lákra
allative lához lákhoz
elative lából lákból
delative láról lákról
ablative lától láktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		láé láké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		láéi lákéi
Possessive forms of lá
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. lám láim
2nd person sing. lád láid
3rd person sing. lája lái
1st person plural lánk láink
2nd person plural látok láitok
3rd person plural lájuk láik

or (as a means of distinction from certain inflected forms of lát (“to see”))

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lá lá-k
accusative lá-t lá-kat
dative lá-nak lá-knak
instrumental lá-val lá-kkal
causal-final lá-ért lá-kért
translative lá-vá lá-kká
terminative lá-ig lá-kig
essive-formal lá-ként lá-kként
essive-modal lá-ul —
inessive lá-ban lá-kban
superessive lá-n lá-kon
adessive lá-nál lá-knál
illative lá-ba lá-kba
sublative lá-ra lá-kra
allative lá-hoz lá-khoz
elative lá-ból lá-kból
delative lá-ról lá-król
ablative lá-tól lá-któl
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		lá-é lá-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		lá-éi lá-kéi
Possessive forms of lá
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. lá-m lá-im
2nd person sing. lá-d lá-id
3rd person sing. lá-ja lá-i
1st person plural lá-nk lá-ink
2nd person plural lá-tok lá-itok
3rd person plural lá-juk lá-ik

Further reading Edit

Anagrams Edit

Icelandic Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old Norse *lá, from Proto-Germanic *lahaną (“to blame”).

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

lá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative láði, supine láð)

  1. to blame
    Ég lái Önnu það ekki.
    I don't blame Anna for it.

Conjugation Edit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Verb Edit

lá

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of liggja

Noun Edit

lá f (genitive singular lár, nominative plural lár)

  1. the part of the sea near to the shore
  2. billow (large wave)

Declension Edit

declension of lá
f-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lá láin lár lárnar
accusative lá lána lár lárnar
dative lá lánni lám lánum
genitive lár lárinnar láa lánna

Irish Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old Irish lá.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

lá m (genitive singular lae, nominative plural laethanta)

  1. day

Declension Edit

Declension of lá

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lá laethanta
Vocative a lá a laethanta
Genitive lae laethanta
Dative lá
ló (archaic, dialectal) 		laethanta
laethantaibh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an lá na laethanta
Genitive an lae na laethanta
Dative leis an lá
leis an ló (archaic, dialectal)

don lá
don ló (archaic, dialectal)

leis na laethanta
leis na laethantaibh (archaic, dialectal)
  • Alternative genitive singular: laoi (archaic, dialectal)
  • Alternative plural: laetha, laethe (archaic, dialectal)
  • Alternative dative plural: laethibh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms Edit

Further reading Edit

Mandarin Edit

Alternative forms Edit

  • la — nonstandard

Romanization Edit

lá (la2, Zhuyin ㄌㄚˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拉
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 揦
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旯
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砬
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 磖
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邋

Navajo Edit

Particle Edit

lá

  1. it occurred to me (emphasizes a statement, or turns it into an exclamation, usually indicating recently discovered knowledge)
    Ashxoshgo tłʼízí shichʼahkʼįįʼí yę́ę sitsʼą́ą́ʼ yiyííłchozh lá. ― While I was sleeping the goat ate my straw hat.

Derived terms Edit

Old Irish Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Unknown. Thurneysen has tried to derive this term from the contraction of its synonym laithe, itself from Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁t- (“warm part of the year”), and cognate with Proto-Slavic *lěto n (“summer, year”).[1] Hence, in the original versions of the Dictionary of the Irish Language, lá and laithe were formerly given in the same entry. However, Stifter remains skeptical of this etymology (and believes that the two words are not closely related at all), and eventually the 2019 edition of DIL separated the two terms into separate entries.

Alternative forms Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

lá n (genitive laí, nominative plural lá or láa or lae)

  1. day, daylight
    Synonym: laithe
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 25c6
      Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.
      Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.
  2. (in adverbial phrases) Denoting point in time.
Usage notes Edit

This noun, when used as a temporal reference, only referred to daytime. To refer to an event taking place across the course of a calendar day or more, a matching number of aidchi (“nights”) must be additionally specified. For example, an event occurring over three days would occur over trí láa ocus teora aidchi "three days and three nights" in Old Irish.

Inflection Edit
Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa
Vocative lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa
Accusative lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa
Genitive laí lá, lae, láa lá, lae, láa
Dative láu, láo, ló láib láib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
  • Irish: lá
  • Manx: laa
  • Scottish Gaelic: latha

Further reading Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

From Proto-Celtic *layeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to leave”).[2]

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

·lá (verbal noun -l)

  1. unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs
Derived terms Edit
Terms derived from ·lá

Mutation Edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
lá
also llá after a proclitic 		lá
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References Edit

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 283
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

Old Norse Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

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

Noun Edit

lá f (genitive lár, plural lár)

  1. the line of the shoal water along the shore
Declension Edit
  Declension of lá (strong ō-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lá láin lár lárnar
accusative lá láina lár lárnar
dative lá láinni lám lánum
genitive lár lárinnar lá lánna
Descendants Edit
References Edit
  • lá in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • lá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Etymology 2 Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb Edit

lá

  1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of liggja

Portuguese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: lá

Etymology 1 Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese ala, from Latin ad (“to”) + illāc (“that way”).

Alternative forms Edit

Adverb Edit

lá (not comparable)

  2. there (in that place, far from both the speaker and the audience)
    Synonym: acolá
    Antonyms: aqui, cá
    Coordinate terms: aí, ali
    Minha casa fica lá. ― My house is located there.
  4. used with an adverb phrase to indicate that something is far
    O Santo Graal está lá no topo do castelo. ― The Holy Grail is on top of the castle.
    A verdade está lá fora. ― The truth is out there.
  6. (informal, in negative phrases) that; particularly (to a significant extent)
    Synonyms: de fato, na verdade, realmente
    Para andorinhas, carregar cocos não é lá tão difícil. ― For swallows, carrying coconuts isn’t that hard.
  8. (informal, in interrogative phrases) even (expresses intensified disagreement with a previous sentence)
    Synonym: por acaso
    E ele lá entende o que você diz? ― And does he even understand what you say?
Usage notes Edit
  • ali also means there, but implies a relatively close location. aí is also translated as there but it is used for things close to the audience.
Quotations Edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

Derived terms Edit

See also Edit

Portuguese demonstratives (edit)
Pronouns Adverbs
Singular Plural Neuter
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Proximal X este esta estes estas isto aqui, cá
de + X deste desta destes destas disto daqui
em + X neste nesta nestes nestas nisto —
Medial X esse essa esses essas isso aí
de + X desse dessa desses dessas disso daí
em + X nesse nessa nesses nessas nisso —
Distal X aquele aquela aqueles aquelas aquilo ali, lá
de + X daquele daquela daqueles daquelas daquilo dali
em + X naquele naquela naqueles naquelas naquilo —
a + X àquele àquela àqueles àquelas àquilo
Anaphoric X o a os as — —
de + X do da dos das
em + X no na nos nas
a + X ao à aos às

Etymology 2 Edit

Borrowed from Italian la, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip’s”).

Noun Edit

lá m (plural lás)

  2. (music) la (sixth note of a major scale, in solfège)
Quotations Edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

Coordinate terms Edit

Etymology 3 Edit

Interjection Edit

lá

  2. meaningless syllable used in joyful singing
    Trá-lá-lá-lá-lá. ― Tra-la-la-la-la

Vietnamese Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Vietic *s-laːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaʔ. Cognate with Thavung ซะล้า, Khmer ស្លា (slaa, “areca”), Bahnar hla, Mon သၠ (hlaˀ), Khasi sla, Semai sela. Related to Chinese 茶 (chá) (tea), which was a Loloish loan that in turn was borrowed from Austroasiatic.

Doublet of trà and chè.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

(classifier chiếc) lá • (蘿, 𦲿)

  1. a leaf
    Synonym: lá cây
    Chiếc lá cuối cùng ― The Last Leaf

See also Edit

Derived terms

Classifier Edit

lá • (蘿, 𦲿)

  1. Used for thin and flat and/or leaf-like objects, such as letters, cards, flags, leaf-shaped organs (such as the liver, the lungs, the spleen, the pancreas), etc.
    lá thư/bài/cờ/gan ― a letter/card/flag/liver
    Rừng mưa A-ma-dôn là lá phổi xanh của Trái Đất.
    The Amazon rainforest is the green lung of the Earth.

Adjective Edit

lá • (蘿, 𦲿)

  1. (rare, literary) green
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