different between lee vs lese

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

Etymology

From Middle English lesen, leosen, from Old English *l?osan (found in bel?osan, forl?osan, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *leusan? (“to lose”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- (“to cut; sever; loose; lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?z/

Verb

lese (third-person singular simple present leses, present participle lesing, simple past lore, past participle lorn)

1. (obsolete) To lose.
2. (obsolete) To destroy.
3. (obsolete) To forsake or abandon.

Anagrams

• EELS, ELEs, Else, Lees, Slee, eels, else, l'ees, lees, seel, sele

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?s?]
• Rhymes: -?s?
• Hyphenation: le?se

Noun

lese

1. vocative singular of les
2. locative singular of les

Estonian

Noun

lese

1. genitive singular of lesk

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lese?/, [?le?s?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: le?se

Etymology 1

lestä +? -e

Noun

lese

1. (chiefly used in plural) bran (outside layer of a grain when separated from the grain)

Usage notes

When it still covers the grain, lese is called (jyvän) kuori.

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

lese

1. Indicative present connegative form of lestä.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of lestä.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of lestä.

Galician

Verb

lese

1. first-person singular preterite subjunctive of ler
2. third-person singular preterite subjunctive of ler

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?z?/

Verb

lese

1. inflection of lesen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Hungarian

Etymology

les +? -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l???]
• Hyphenation: le?se

Noun

lese

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of les

Declension

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German lesen, from Old High German lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?s?/

Verb

lese

1. to read

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eze

Verb

lese f pl

1. feminine plural of leso

Adjective

lese

1. feminine plural of leso

Anagrams

• else

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse lesa

Verb

lese (imperative les, present tense leser, simple past leste, past participle lest)

1. to read

Derived terms

References

• “lese” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

lese

1. neuter of lesen

Verb

lese (present tense les, past tense las, supine lese, past participle lesen, present participle lesande, imperative les)

1. alternative form of lesa

Derived terms

References

• “lese” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Else, -else, esel, esle, sele

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German lesen, Dutch lezen, English lease.

Verb

lese

1. to read
2. to pick up

Conjugation

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin leg?.

Verb

lese

1. to read

Portuguese

Verb

lese

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of lesar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of lesar
3. first-person singular imperative of lesar
4. third-person singular imperative of lesar