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lei (plural leis)
garland of flowers in Hawaii
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lei
From Dutch leiden, from Middle Dutch leiden, from Old Dutch leiden, from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną.
lei (present lei, present participle leidende or leiende, past participle gelei)
- to lead
From Dutch lei, from Middle Dutch leye, probably from Celtic and ultimately from a substrate language.
lei (uncountable)
- slate (stone)
lei inan
Declension of lei (inanimate, ending in vowel)
- “lei”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “lei”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
lei
- (Morvan) leu
lei m (plural leis)
From Middle Dutch leye, probably an old Germanic loan from Gaulish *lēi, from Proto-Celtic *līwanks (compare *līwos (“stone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”), see also Ancient Greek λᾶας (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”).
lei f (plural leien, diminutive leitje n)
- (uncountable) slate (material)
- (countable) slate (object)
- → Papiamentu: lei (dated)
From Middle Dutch leide, with the same development as in zeggen > zei.
lei
- (archaic) singular past indicative of leggen
lei
- lei (Hawaiian garland of flowers)
Inflection of lei (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | lei | leit | |
genitive | lein | leiden leitten | |
partitive | leitä | leitä | |
illative | leihin | leihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lei | leit | |
accusative | nom. | lei | leit |
gen. | lein | ||
genitive | lein | leiden leitten | |
partitive | leitä | leitä | |
inessive | leissä | leissä | |
elative | leistä | leistä | |
illative | leihin | leihin | |
adessive | leillä | leillä | |
ablative | leiltä | leiltä | |
allative | leille | leille | |
essive | leinä | leinä | |
translative | leiksi | leiksi | |
abessive | leittä | leittä | |
instructive | — | lein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
- “lei”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
lei (nonstandard, obsolete)
- leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova)
Inflection of lei (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | lei | leit | |
genitive | lein | leiden leitten | |
partitive | leitä | leitä | |
illative | leihin | leihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lei | leit | |
accusative | nom. | lei | leit |
gen. | lein | ||
genitive | lein | leiden leitten | |
partitive | leitä | leitä | |
inessive | leissä | leissä | |
elative | leistä | leistä | |
illative | leihin | leihin | |
adessive | leillä | leillä | |
ablative | leiltä | leiltä | |
allative | leille | leille | |
essive | leinä | leinä | |
translative | leiksi | leiksi | |
abessive | leittä | leittä | |
instructive | — | lein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- (unit of currency): leu
From Latin legere, present active infinitive of legō.
lei (past participle let)
- to read
From Old Galician-Portuguese lei, ley, from earlier lee, from Latin lex, lēgem, from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s < *leǵ-.
lei f (plural leis)
lei m pl
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
lei (ka)
- lei, a wreath of flowers or leaves
- necklace
- (by extension) child, carried on the shoulders like a lei
lei
- to leap
The formal address Lei appears in the 16th century in connection with Signoria (“Lordship”), Eccellenza (“Excellency”), Santità (“Holiness”) and Magnificenza,[1] alongside Voi.
lei f (plural loro, masculine lui)
- she
- her
- it
- 1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161:
La pioggia cadde, e a’ foſſati venne / Di lei ciò che la terra non ſofferſe
- The rain fell and into the channels ran / Whatever of it was not absorbed by the ground
- ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 228:
[…] videro il drappo, et in quello la testa, non ancor sì consumata, che essi alla capellatura crespa non conoscessero lei esser quella di Lorenzo.
- […] they saw the cloth and the head wrapped inside it, which was not yet sufficiently decomposed that they could not help but identify it, from the curly hair, as being Lorenzo’s.
- ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 512:
[…] Filomena in ciò che dell’amistà dice, racconta il vero, e con ragione nel fine delle sue parole si dolse lei oggi così poco da’ mortali esser gradita.
- […] Philomena is in the right as to what she has said upon friendship; and it was with reason she complained, last of all, of its being in such little esteem with mankind […]
1984, Stefano Benni, Stranalandia, Feltrinelli, published 2015, page 76:
La banana di Stranalandia è alla base dell’economia dell’isola. Senza di lei la vita qui sarebbe molto dura.
- The banana of Strangeland forms the basis of the island’s economy. Without it, life here would be very tough.
- 1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161:
lei m (plural voi)
Italian personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Combined | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
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Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | |||
second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | te | te | |||||
third | m | lui | si2, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se2 | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | lei, Lei1 | la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1 | le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1 | lei, Lei1, sé | ||||||
Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | |||
second | — | voi, Voi4 | vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4 | ve | voi, Voi4 | |||||
third | m | loro, Loro1 | si, s', -si | li, Li1, -li, -Li1 | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1 |
glie, se | loro, Loro1, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | le, Le1, -le, -Le1 | |||||||||
1 | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | |||||||||
2 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | |||||||||
3 | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | |||||||||
4 | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |
lei
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘞
lei
- Nonstandard spelling of lēi.
- Nonstandard spelling of léi.
- Nonstandard spelling of lěi.
- Nonstandard spelling of lèi.
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
lei
lei (masculine and feminine lei, neuter leit, definite singular and plural leie, comparative leiere, indefinite superlative leiest, definite superlative leieste)
lei f or m (definite singular leia or leien, indefinite plural leier, definite plural leiene)
- led (of lide)
lei
- simple past of lide
- imperative of leie
- “lei” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
lei f (definite singular leia, indefinite plural leier, definite plural leiene)
- (maritime) route, sea route (a route, mostly along a coastline or between islands, that is safe to sail)
- direction
lei (masculine and feminine lei, neuter leitt, definite singular and plural leie, comparative leiare, indefinite superlative leiast, definite superlative leiaste)
Declension of lei
lei seg
lei
- imperative of leie
lei
- “lei” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
lei m pl or f pl
From Latin lex, legem.
lei oblique singular, f (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lei, nominative plural lez)
- a law
From Old Galician-Portuguese lei, ley, from earlier lee, from Latin lēgem, from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s < *leǵ-.
Cognate with Galician lei, Spanish ley, Catalan llei, Occitan lei, French loi, Italian legge and Romanian lege.
- Hyphenation: lei
lei f (plural leis)
- law
- 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 1st canto:
E aqueles, que por obras valerosas / Se vão da lei da morte libertando.
- And those who by valourous deeds free themselves from the law of Death.
- 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 1st canto:
lei m pl
Borrowed from Spanish ley, from Latin lex, legem.
lei
lei (third-person singular simple present leis, present participle leiin, simple past leid, past participle leid)
- (Southern Scots) Alternative form of lee.
lei m pl
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lay. Cognates include Burmese လျှာ (hlya) and Tibetan ལྕེ (lce).
lei
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lis. Cognates include Burmese မြေ (mre) and Tibetan གལྱི (glyi).
léi
- earth
1992, Holy Bible In Zou, Siemchilbu 1:1:
Achiil in Paisan Lei leh Van asiem.
- In the beginning God created the Earth and Heaven.
- land
- ground, soil
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lay. Cognates include Burmese လှေကား (hleka:, “ladder”) and Chinese 梯 (tī, “ladder”).
lèi
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62