lé
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French lé (“wide, broad”, adjective), from Latin lātus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lé m (plural lés)
Further readingEdit
- “lé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric root *leme or Proto-Uralic *läme as Finnish liemi
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
DeclensionEdit
The accusative and the plural form can 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 termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- lé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
IrishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Alternative formsEdit
- léighe (superseded)
VerbEdit
lé
Etymology 2Edit
PrepositionEdit
lé (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)
PronounEdit
lé (emphatic léise)
- Alternative spelling of léi: third-person singular feminine of le
MwanEdit
PostpositionEdit
lé
NormanEdit
| Norman Definite Articles | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| masculine | le / l' | les |
| feminine | la / l' | les |
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
ArticleEdit
lé m (plural les)
- (Jersey) the masculine singular definite article
- 2013 March 1, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier[1], 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.
- lé beurre ― the butter
- lé dgèrryi ― the warrior
- lé lait ― the milk
- lé sâbre ― the sword
Coordinate termsEdit
- (gender): la
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lee)
NounEdit
lé m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lé)
DescendantsEdit
- French: lé
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
NounEdit
lé m
DeclensionEdit
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.