different between lee vs lene

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hl?o, hl?ow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin cal?re (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit ???? (?arad, “autumn”)).

Noun

lee (plural lees)

1. (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • We lurked under lee.

   • 1873, John Tyndall, "Niagara", in Fragments of Science (1907), page 182

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

Antonyms

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

Derived terms

• alee
• leeward
• leeway

Translations

Adjective

lee (not comparable)

1. (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

Etymology 2

Noun

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.

Further reading

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• lee at OneLook Dictionary Search
• lee in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ELE, eel

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?/

Noun

lée f 

1. water

References

• Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99
• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar?^[3], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5

Belizean Creole

Adjective

lee

1. little

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?/, [?le??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: lee

Noun

lee

1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

Derived terms

• leenpuoleinen

Anagrams

• ele

Luxembourgish

Verb

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee

1. To lie; to speak falsely.

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Northern Sotho

Noun

lee

1. egg

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ledd.

Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

References

• “lee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lee” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative le)

1. Alternative form of lea

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee (third-person singular present lees, present participle leein, past leet, past participle leet)

1. To lie (tell lies).

Spanish

Verb

lee

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of leer.

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.?/

Noun

lee 5 (plural mae)

1. egg

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, from Old English li??an, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Verb

lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth)

1. to lie, lay

Etymology 2

Verb

lee

1. Alternative form of laave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

lene (plural lenes)

1. (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
2. (phonetics) Any of the lene consonants, such as Greek pi, kappa, tau.

Anagrams

• Leen, Neel, elne

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?n?

Verb

lene

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lenen

Anagrams

• leen

Galician

Etymology

From Latin l?nis, in substitution of the inherited form len (attested 13th century) which is preserved in the adverbial phrase ao len (“out in the open”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?ne?/

Adjective

lene m or f (plural lenes)

1. (literary) mild, gentle, soft
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:

     Madre, sabes tu que Esau, meu yrmão he veloso et eu nõ, mays som lem, et se meu padre me apalpar et souber que sóóm eu, medo ey que coyde queo quis [excarnesçer], et em lugar de bendiçõ ey medo que me maldiga.

     Mother, you know that Esau, my brother, is hairy, but not me, I'm hairless; and if my father would touch me and find that it's me, I fear that he would think that I was mocking him, and instead of his blessing I would have his curse

   Synonyms: maino, suave

References

• “lem” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lene” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lene” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lene” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin l?nis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.ne/
• Rhymes: -?ne
• Hyphenation: lè?ne

Adjective

lene (plural leni) (literary)

1. mild, gentle, soft

   Synonyms: delicato, lieve, mite, soave

   Antonyms: aspro, brusco, forte, greve, pesante

2. (poetic) smooth
3. (phonetics) lenis

Derived terms

• lenemente

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le.ne/
• Rhymes: -ene
• Hyphenation: lé?ne

Noun

lene f pl

1. plural of lena

Latin

Etymology 1

From l?nis.

Adverb

l?ne (comparative l?nius, superlative l?nissim?)

1. softly, gently

   Synonym: l?niter

Related terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

l?ne

1. nominative singular neuter of l?nis
2. vocative singular neuter of l?nis
3. accusative singular neuter of l?nis

References

• lene in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lene in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German lehnen

Verb

lene (imperative len, present tense lener, passive lenes, simple past lenet or lente, past participle lenet or lent, present participle lenende)

1. to lean

Derived terms

• armlene (of noun)

References

• “lene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lena

Etymology

From German lehnen

Verb

lene

1. to lean

Derived terms

• armlene (of noun)

References

• “lene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin l?nis, l?nem. (The expected native form would be *lem from Old Portuguese l?e.)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?le.ni/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?le.n?/
• Hyphenation: le?ne

Adjective

lene m or f (plural lenes, comparable)

1. smooth, mild, gentle, soft

   Synonyms: brando, suave

Related terms

• leniente
• leniência

Romanian

Etymology

From Slavic *l?n?. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijén?st, Russian ???? (len?), Polish le?. Cf also Aromanian leani.

Noun

lene f (uncountable)

1. laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence

   Synonyms: indolen??, trând?vie, lâncezeal?, del?sare

Derived terms

Swedish

Adjective

lene

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of len.

Anagrams

• elen