# lé
## Franco-Provençal
### Noun

lé (Fribourgeois)
* Alternative form of lèc (“lake”)

### References

* lac in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /le/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -e

### Noun

lé m (plural lés)
* (obsolete) breadth, width
* strip, length (of paper, textiles etc.)

### Further reading

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

## Ghomala'
### Pronunciation

Rhymes: -e

### Verb

lé alternate of dé?
* to look at, to frequent, to visit
    Lé tə́ yɔ́ pâ' gaə buŋ. ― Look how beautiful I am.
* to look for
    Synonym: cə́ŋ
    Ě lé tə̂ yɔ́. ― He/she sought till found.

#### Derived terms

* létə̀

#### See also

* yɔ́

### References

* Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈleː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -leː

### Noun

lé (plural levek or lék) (the latter is mostly proscribed)
* liquid
    Synonyms: folyadék, nedv
* juice
    Synonyms: gyümölcslé, dzsúsz
* gravy
    Synonyms: húslé, szaft
* (slang) dough, cabbage, bread, lolly, dosh (money)
    Synonyms: lóvé, dohány, steksz, zseton, zsozsó, zsé (all are slang terms, as opposed to pénz)

#### Declension

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.)

#### Derived terms

* leves
* almalé
* citromlé
* gyümölcslé
* halászlé
* húslé
* lédús
* léhűtő
* narancslé
* szőlőlé
* minden lében kanál
* olcsó húsnak híg a leve

### Further reading

* 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

### Anagrams

* él

## Irish
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* léighe (superseded)

#### Verb

lé
* present subjunctive analytic of léigh

### Etymology 2
#### Preposition

lé (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis, before the definite article leis)
* Superseded spelling of le.

#### Pronoun

lé (emphatic léise)
* Alternative spelling of léi: third-person singular feminine of le

## Mwan
### Postposition

lé
* with

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* l'
* eul (Cauchois)

### Pronunciation

* (Jersey) IPA: /lɛː/
* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Article

lé m (plural les)
* (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.

#### Coordinate terms

* (gender): la

## Old Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈlɛː/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈliː/

### Verb

lé
* third-person singular present of líti

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin lātus.

### Adjective

lé m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lee)
* wide

### Noun

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

#### Descendants

* French: lé

## Old Norse
### Etymology

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”).

### Noun

lé m (genitive ljá, plural ljár)
* scythe

#### Declension

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.

#### Descendants

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

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [lɛ˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [lɛ˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [lɛ˦˥]

### Adjective

lé • (𥆼)
* cross-eyed

#### Derived terms

* lé xẹ (từ láy)