# lia
## Albanian
### Noun

lia
* definite nominative singular of li

## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

From Malay lihat.

### Verb

lia
* (intransitive) to see
* (transitive) to look at
    Beta ada lia-lia baju sa ni. ― I'm just looking at clothes now.
* (transitive) to watch
* (transitive) to observe
* (transitive) to spy, peek, snoop

### References

* D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

## Esperanto
### Etymology

li +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈlia]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: li‧a

### Determiner

lia (accusative singular lian, plural liaj, accusative plural liajn)
* (possessive) his

### See also

| | | Singular | Singular | Singular | Plural | Plural | Plural |
| | | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive |
| First person | First person | mi | min | mia | ni | nin | nia |
| Second person | Formal | vi | vin | via | vi | vin | via |
| Second person | Familiar$^1$ | ci | cin | cia | vi | vin | via |
| Third person | Masculine | li | lin | lia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Feminine | ŝi | ŝin | ŝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Neuter | ĝi | ĝin | ĝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Gender-neutral$^2$ | ri ŝli | rin ŝlin | ria ŝlia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Reflexive | si | sin | sia | si | sin | sia |
| Indefinite | Indefinite | oni | onin | onia | oni | onin | onia |
| Notes ||||||||
| $^1$ The second person familiar pronouns are archaic. $^2$ The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used. $^3$ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used. ||||||||

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

lia
* third-person singular past historic of lier

### Anagrams

* ail, lai

## Galician
### Verb

lia
* (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ler

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *halia by metathesis from earlier variant *lahia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laqia (“ginger”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liaʔ/

### Noun

lia
* ginger (Zingiber officinale)

## Ido
### Determiner

lia
* (possessive) their

## Irish
### Etymology 1

From Middle Irish lía, from Old Irish lië, from Proto-Celtic *līwanks (compare *līwos), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”) (compare Ancient Greek λᾶας (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”)).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̠ʲiə/, /lʲiə/
* Homophone: liath (Connacht, Ulster)

#### Noun

lia m (genitive singular lia, nominative plural liaga)
* stone, pillar-stone

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
lia
liaga
vocative
a lia
a liaga
genitive
lia
liag
dative
lia
liaga
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an lia
na liaga
genitive
an lia
na liag
dative
leis an lia don lia
leis na liaga :

##### Derived terms

* lia longadáin (“logan, logan stone, rocking stone”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish líaig, cognate with Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis) and English leech (“physician”).

#### Alternative forms

* liaigh (obsolete)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̠ʲiə/
* (Cork) IPA: /lʲiəɡ/ (corresponding to the form liag)
* (Ulster) IPA: /l̠ʲəi/, [l̠ʲei] (corresponding to the form liaigh)
* Homophone: liath (Connacht)

#### Noun

lia m (genitive singular lia, nominative plural lianna)
* healer, physician

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
lia
lianna
vocative
a lia
a lianna
genitive
lia
lianna
dative
lia
lianna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an lia
na lianna
genitive
an lia
na lianna
dative
leis an lia don lia
leis na lianna :

##### Derived terms

* banlia (“female physician”)
* cluaslia (“ear specialist”)
* lia ban (“gynaecologist”)
* lia comhairleach (“consultant”)
* lia súl (“oculist”)
* liacht (“medicine”)
* lialann (“surgery”)
* luibhlia (“herbalist”)
* máinlia (“surgeon”)
* súil-lia (“oculist”)
* tréidlia (“veterinarian”)

### Etymology 3

From Old Irish lië, from Proto-Celtic *liyants (compare Welsh lliant), present participle of *liyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (compare Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Lithuanian líeti).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̠ʲiə/, /lʲiə/
* Homophone: liath (Connacht, Ulster)

#### Noun

lia m (genitive singular lia)
* (literary) flood, torrent

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
lia
vocative
a lia
genitive
lia
dative
lia
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an lia
genitive
an lia
dative
leis an lia don lia :

### Etymology 4

From Old Irish lïa (superlative of il (“many, much”)), from Proto-Celtic *ɸlīyos, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-yōs.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̠ʲiə/, /lʲiə/
* Homophone: liath (Connacht, Ulster)

#### Adjective

lia
* more, more numerous

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 líaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 160, page 61
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 lía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “lia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Latin
### Verb

līā
* second-person singular present active imperative of līō

### References

* "lia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “lia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

## Mandarin
### Romanization

lia
* Nonstandard spelling of liǎ.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

lia f
* definite singular of li

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈl͈ʲi.a]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *ɸleis, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-yōs.

#### Adjective

lïa
* comparative degree of il: more
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23$^b$7
    Hóre am essamin-se precepte asmo chuimriug, is lïa de creitfess.Since I am fearless in preaching out of my captivity, the more it is who will believe.

##### Descendants

* Irish: lia

### Etymology 2

Univerbation of la (“with”) +‎ a (“his, her, their”)

#### Determiner

lïa
* (triggers lenition) with his, its m
* (triggers h-prothesis) with her, its f
* (triggers nasalization) with their

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈli.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -iɐ
* Homophone: Lia
* Hyphenation: li‧a

### Verb

lia
* first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ler
* inflection of liar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Interjection

lia
* Obsolete form of li.

### References

* lia in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* ligia (Sursilvan)
* leia (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

lia f (plural lias)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) league

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlja/ [ˈlja]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: lia

### Verb

lia
* second-person singular voseo imperative of liar

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

-lia (infinitive kulia)
* Applicative form of -la: to eat with, for, or at

##### Derived terms

* Nominal derivations:
** mkono wa kulia (“the right hand”)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

#### Verb

-lia (infinitive kulia)
* to cry, despair, lament

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -lia :
| Positive present | -nalia |
| Subjunctive | -lie |
| Negative | -lii |
| Imperative singular | lia |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kulia |
| Negative | kutolia |
Imperatives :
| Singular | lia |
| Plural | lieni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hulia |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lilia |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kulia |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -talia |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -talia |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -silie |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngelia |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singelia |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalilia |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalilia |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -melia |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshalia |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jalia |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kilia |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipolia |
| Consecutive | kalia / positive subject concord + -kalia |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kalie |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

##### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -lilia
** Causative: -liza
** Passive: -liliwa
** Reciprocal: -liana
** Stative: -lilika
* Nominal derivations:
** mlizi

## Tetum
### Etymology

See the Tetum noun lian.

### Noun

lia
* word
* language

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [liə˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [liə˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [liə˧˧]

### Verb

lia
* to throw at an angle, to throw with a spin
** 2001, Chu Lai, Cuộc đời dài lắm, NXB Văn học, page 203:Tiện tay anh lia luôn cuốn sổ vào gầm bàn, gừ lên một tiếng nữa.With a turn of his hand, he threw the notebook under the table and grunted once more.

### Anagrams

* lai