lí
See also: Appendix:Variations of "li"
IrishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Irish lí, from Proto-Celtic *līwos. Cognate with Welsh lliw.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lí f (genitive singular lí, nominative plural líocha)
- color, complexion
- lustre, sheen
- lí gréine ar an ngaineamh ― sun's brightness on the sand
- coloring-matter, pigment
- pigmentation
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative formsEdit
- lighe (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lí f (genitive singular lí)
VerbEdit
lí
MandarinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- li – nonstandard
PronunciationEdit
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RomanizationEdit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 刕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 剓
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 剺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚟
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囄
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫠
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孋/㛤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孷
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 廲
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 悡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 摙/𫽁
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攡/摛
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 斃/毙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 杙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梩
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 棃
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氂/牦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漓
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灍/𫞝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灕/漓
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 牥
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犁, 犂
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犛/牦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琋
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓈/璃
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 睝
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穲
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籬/篱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 粍
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 粚
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 糎
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 縭/缡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纗/𫄹
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罹
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 艃
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 莇
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蓠
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔾/藜
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薶
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藜
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘺/蓠
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蜊
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟍
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟰
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠢
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 謧
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貍/狸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邌
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酈/郦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酶
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釁/衅
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釐, 厘
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鋫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錅
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鏫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鑗
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 離/离
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霽/霁
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 騹/𬴆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 驪/骊
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 髣
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯬/𫚞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鱺/鲡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵹/𱊃
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鸝/鹂
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麖
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黎
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黐
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黧
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㒿/𰖩
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㓯
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 浬
MatagalpaEdit
NounEdit
lí
ReferencesEdit
- Daniel G. Brinton, The Matagalpan Linguistic Stock of Central America, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 34 : 149 (December, 1895), pages 403-415, page 413
Min NanEdit
For pronunciation and definitions of lí – see 你 (“you”). (This character, lí, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 你.) |
For pronunciation and definitions of lí – see 李 (“plum; a surname.”). (This character, lí, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 李.) |
Old IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *līwos.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lí f
- beauty, luster, brilliance, glory
- "Hail Brigit", from the Book of Leinster, published in Hail Brigit: an Old-Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn. ed. and trans. Kuno Meyer. Halle a.S., M. Niemeyer, 1912.
- Fodbae Feradaig, fó mind, [...] a brat líg, [...]
- The spoils of Feradach: a good diadem, [...], its shining robes...
- "Hail Brigit", from the Book of Leinster, published in Hail Brigit: an Old-Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn. ed. and trans. Kuno Meyer. Halle a.S., M. Niemeyer, 1912.
- brightness, color
- c. 800, Stowe Missal, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 250, lines 11-12
- Líi gréne fris·ben att, benith galar.
- The sun's brightness that heals the swelling, it will quell the disease.
- c. 800, Stowe Missal, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 250, lines 11-12
InflectionEdit
This noun possessed a peculiar declension. In the singular and dual, it was generally indeclinable in form, but its singular forms triggered mutations. But in the plural, it rather obviously inflected like a feminine ā-stem with an etymologically superfluous -g- in the stem.
Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | líL, líN | líL | lígaH |
Vocative | líL | líL | lígaH |
Accusative | líN | líL | lígaH |
Genitive | líH | líL | lígN |
Dative | líL | lígaib | lígaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived termsEdit
- lígach (“beautiful, lustrous”)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*liwo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
Further readingEdit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
VietnameseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 理.
PronunciationEdit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [li˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [lɪj˨˩˦]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [lɪj˦˥]
- Homophone: Lí
NounEdit
lí
- common sense
- hợp lí ― sensible
- có lí ― sound
- vô lí ― nonsensical
- sound and fair reasoning
- có lí có tình ― just; fair and square
- (colloquial, education) Clipping of vật lí (“physics”).
See alsoEdit
Derived terms