different between lees vs leis

English

Etymology 1

Old French lies, from Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligy?, *legy? (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legy? (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie”).

Noun

lees pl (plural only)

1. The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.

Synonyms

• (sediment): dregs

Related terms

• lie

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lees

1. plural of lee

Anagrams

• EELS, ELEs, Else, Slee, eels, else, lese, seel, sele

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lezen, from Middle Dutch l?sen (“to collect, gather, read”), from Old Dutch lesan (“to gather, read”), from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??s/

Verb

lees (present lees, present participle lesende, past participle gelees)

1. to read

Related terms

• leser

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Verb

lees

1. first-person singular present indicative of lezen
2. imperative of lezen

Anagrams

• slee

Luxembourgish

Verb

lees

1. second-person singular present indicative of leeën

North Frisian

Etymology

In sense 1 from Old Frisian lesa.

Verb

lees

1. (Föhr-Amrum Dialect) to read
2. (Föhr-Amrum Dialect) to load

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

lees

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of leer.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?z/
• Homophone: lays

Noun

leis

1. plural of lei

Anagrams

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

Galician

Noun

leis f pl

1. plural of lei

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??s/
• Rhymes: -a??s

Adjective

leis (comparative leiser, superlative am leisesten)

1. (colloquial, poetic) Alternative form of leise

Further reading

• “leis” in Duden online

Irish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????/

Noun

leis f (genitive singular leise, nominative plural leasracha)

1. (anatomy) thigh
2. (cooking) leg, haunch

Declension

Synonyms

• ceathrú f
• sliasaid f

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Preposition

leis (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. form of le (“with”) used before the definite article

Alternative forms

• ris

Pronoun

leis (emphatic leis-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of le

Adverb

leis

1. also
2. (with negative) too, either

Synonyms

• (also): chomh maith, fosta, freisin

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????/

Adverb

leis

1. uncovered, exposed

References

• (prepositional pronoun): Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• (prepositional pronoun): Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• lieis
• lieys

Pronoun

leis

1. 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.

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

leis

1. plural of lei

Scots

Noun

leis

1. (South Scots) lies

Verb

leis

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of lei

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le?]

Preposition

leis

1. Alternative form of le

Usage notes

• This is the form is used before the definite article.

Pronoun

leis

1. with him, by him
2. with it, by it

Derived terms

• leis-san

See also

• leatha