lé

Inherited from Old French lé (“wide, broad”, adjective), from Latin lātus.

• IPA^(key): /le/

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• Rhymes: -e

lé m (plural lés)

1. (obsolete) breadth, width
2. strip, length (of paper, textiles etc.)

• “lé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Uralic *läme. Cognate with Finnish liemi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈleː]

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• Rhymes: -leː

lé (plural levek or lék) (the latter is mostly proscribed)

1. liquid

   Synonyms: folyadék, nedv

2. juice

   Synonyms: gyümölcslé, dzsúsz

3. gravy

   Synonyms: húslé, szaft

4. (slang) dough, cabbage, bread, lolly, dosh (money)

   Synonyms: lóvé, dohány, steksz, zseton, zsozsó, zsé (all are slang terms, as opposed to pénz)

The accusative and the plural form might also be lét and lék, respectively, although the traditional way is with the lev- stem. (The sense “money” uses only the lét/lék form.)

• lé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• él

• léighe (superseded)

lé

1. present subjunctive analytic of léigh

lé (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)

1. Superseded spelling of le.

lé (emphatic léise)

1. Alternative spelling of léi: third-person singular feminine of le

lé

1. with

• l'
• eul (Cauchois)

• (Jersey) IPA^(key): /lɛː/

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lé m (plural les)

1. (Jersey) the masculine singular definite article

   lé beurre ― the butter

   lé dgèrryi ― the warrior

   lé lait ― the milk

   lé sâbre ― the sword

   • 2013 March, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier‎, archived from the original on 13 March 2016, 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.

• (gender): la

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈlɛː/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈlɛː/

lé

1. third-person singular present of líti

From Latin lātus.

lé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lee)

1. wide

lé oblique singular, m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lé)

1. width

• French: lé

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”).

lé m (genitive ljá, plural ljár)

1. scythe

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.

• Icelandic: ljár m
• Faroese: líggi m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ljå m
• Elfdalian: ljå m
• Old Swedish: lē, lie
• Swedish: lie c (m), lia c (m or even f), in dialects also le, lej, ljå, ljo, lö
• Danish: le c, (archaic) jå c

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɛ˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lɛ˦˥]

lé • (𥆼)

1. cross-eyed