# leis
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leɪz/
* Rhymes: -eɪz
* Homophone: lays

### Noun

leis
* plural of lei

### Anagrams

* isle, Iles, Lise, %iles, sile, Sile, Elis, lies, slie, iles, Isle, ELIs

## Galician
### Noun

leis f pl
* plural of lei

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laɪ̯s/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪ̯s

### Adjective

leis (strong nominative masculine singular leiser, comparative leiser, superlative am leisesten)
* (colloquial, poetic) Alternative form of leise

### Further reading

* “leis” in Duden online

## Irish
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lʲɛʃ/

#### Preposition

leis (plus dative, triggers no mutation)
* form of le (“with”) used before the definite article
    leis an mbuachaill ― with the boy
    leis na cailíní ― with the girls

##### Alternative forms

* ris

#### Pronoun

leis (emphatic leis-sean)
* third-person singular masculine of le
    D’oibrigh mé leis.I worked with him; I worked with it.

#### Adverb

leis
* also
* (with negative) too, either

##### Synonyms

* (also): chomh maith, fosta, freisin

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish les (“buttock, hip, haunch; buttocks, posterior”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /lʲɛʃ/
* (Connacht, Ulster) IPA: /l̠ʲɛʃ/

#### Noun

leis f (genitive singular leise, nominative plural leasracha)
* (anatomy) thigh
* (cooking) leg, haunch

##### Declension

Second declension

##### Synonyms

* ceathrú f
* sliasaid f

##### Derived terms

* leisíneach (“person with game leg; person with limping gait; tardy person”)
* leisíneacht (“limping gait; tardiness”)

### Etymology 3

From Old Irish leis (“uncovered, bare”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /lʲɛʃ/
* (Connacht, Ulster) IPA: /l̠ʲɛʃ/

#### Adverb

leis
* uncovered, exposed

### References

* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume I, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 196
* ↑ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], § 308, page 143

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* lieis
* lieys

### Pronoun

leis
* emphatic oblique of ela: her
** c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, canso:
    Quar senes lieys non puesc viure [...].For without her I cannot live.
** c. 1160, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, vers:
    Qu'ilh val tant e m'es tan coraus, / Que ja de lieis no·m venra maus. For she is worth so much and is such a part of my heart that no ill will ever come to me from her.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Declension

| | nominative | oblique | oblique | oblique | possessive (nom. obl.) |
| | nominative | direct object | indirect object | emphatic | possessive (nom. obl.) |
| singular | | | | | |
| 1st person | eu, ieu ie (before enclitic) | me, mi m', ·m | me, mi m', ·m | me, mi m', ·m | meus meu |
| 2nd person | tu | te, ti ·t | te, ti ·t | te, ti ·t | teus teu |
| 3rd person masculine | el | lo | li l', lh', ·l, ·lh | lui | seus seu |
| 3rd person feminine | ela | la | li l', lh', ·l, ·lh | lei, leis | seus seu |
| 3rd person reflexive | | se, si s', ·s, ·is | se, si s', ·s, ·is | | |
| plural | | | | | |
| 1st person | nos ·ns | nos ·ns | nos ·ns | nos ·ns | nostre |
| 2nd person | vos ·us | vos ·us, ·eus | vos ·us, ·eus | vos ·us, ·eus | vostre |
| 3rd person masculine | il | los | els (after preposition) | lor | lor, lur |
| 3rd person feminine | elas | las | elas (after preposition) | lor | lor, lur |
| 3rd person reflexive | | se, si s', ·s, ·is | se, si s', ·s, ·is | | |

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlejs/ [ˈleɪ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlejs/ [ˈleɪ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈlejʃ/ [ˈleɪ̯ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɐjʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɐjʃ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈlejʃ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈlejʃ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈleʃ/
* Hyphenation: leis

### Noun

leis
* plural of lei

## Scots
### Noun

leis
* (Southern Scots) lies

### Verb

leis
* third-person singular simple present indicative form of lei

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish leiss. Cognates include Irish leis and Manx lesh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leʃ/
* Hyphenation: leis

### Preposition

leis (+ dative)
* Form of le used before a definite article.

### Pronoun

leis (emphatic leis-san)
* third-person singular masculine of le: with him; by him

#### Inflection
### References

* Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382