different between lei vs lek

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?, IPA^(key): /le?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: lay, ley

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian lei.

Noun

lei (plural leis)

1. A garland of flowers in Hawaii.

Derived terms

• haku lei

Translations

See also

• Lei (Hawaii) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Romanian lei

Noun

lei

1. plural of leu

Anagrams

• %ile, -ile, EIL, Eli, Ile, LIE, Lie, ile, lie

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

• (Morvan) leu

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lei m (plural leis)

1. place

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?i?
• IPA^(key): /l?i/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch leye, probably an old Germanic loan from Gaulish *l?i, from Proto-Celtic *l?wanks (compare *l?wos (“stone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leh?w- (“stone”), see also Ancient Greek ???? (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”).

Noun

lei f (plural leien, diminutive leitje n)

1. (uncountable) slate (material)
2. (countable) slate (object)

Derived terms

• leien
• leisteen
• met een schone lei herbeginnen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch leide, with a change gi > i similar to that seen in brein.

Verb

lei

1. (archaic) singular imperative of leggen

Anagrams

• iel

Finnish

Noun

lei

1. A lei (Hawaiian garland of flowers).
2. (nonstandard, obsolete) A leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova).

Declension

Synonyms

• (unit of currency): leu

See also

• kukkaseppele

Anagrams

• eli, lie

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin legere, present active infinitive of leg?.

Verb

lei (past participle let)

1. to read

Related terms

• letôr
• leture
• lezion

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lei/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese lei, ley, from earlier lee, from Latin lex, l?gem, from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s < *le?-.

Noun

lei f (plural leis)

1. law (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. religion, credence, worship of a god

Related terms

• leal

Etymology 2

Noun

lei m pl

1. plural of leu

Hawaiian

Noun

lei (ka)

1. lei, a wreath of flowers or leaves
2. necklace
3. ( by extension ) child, carried on the shoulders like a lei

Verb

lei

1. to leap

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illei or *illaei, which is a Vulgar Latin form of Classical Latin ill? (dative singular of illa). The Vulgar Latin form *illei is modelled under influence of Vulgar Latin *ill?i, whence also lui.The formal address Lei appears in the 16th century in connection with Signoria (“Lordship”), Eccellenza (“Excellency”), Santità (“Holiness”) and Magnificenza, alongside Voi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?j/

Pronoun

lei f (plural loro, masculine lui)

1. she
2. her
3. it
   • 1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161:

     La pioggia cadde, e a’ fo??ati venne / Di lei ciò che la terra non ?offer?e

     The rain fell and into the channels ran / Whatever of it was not absorbed by the ground

   • ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 228:

     […] videro il drappo, et in quello la testa, non ancor sì consumata, che essi alla capellatura crespa non conoscessero lei esser quella di Lorenzo.

     […] they saw the cloth and the head wrapped inside it, which was not yet sufficiently decomposed that they could not help but identify it, from the curly hair, as being Lorenzo’s.

   • ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 512:

     […] Filomena in ciò che dell’amistà dice, racconta il vero, e con ragione nel fine delle sue parole si dolse lei oggi così poco da’ mortali esser gradita.

     […] Philomena is in the right as to what she has said upon friendship; and it was with reason she complained, last of all, of its being in such little esteem with mankind […]

   • 1984, Stefano Benni, Stranalandia, Feltrinelli (2015), page 76:

     La banana di Stranalandia è alla base dell’economia dell’isola. Senza di lei la vita qui sarebbe molto dura.

     The banana of Strangeland forms the basis of the island’s economy. Without it, life here would be very tough.

Synonyms

• ella
• essa

Related terms

• colei

Pronoun

lei m (plural loro)

1. (formal) you

   Synonym: (uncommon) voi

Derived terms

• a lei
• dare del lei

Alternative forms

• Lei

See also

• dare del lei

References

Anagrams

• eli

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Verb

lei

1. second-person singular imperative of leien

Mandarin

Romanization

lei (Zhuyin ???)

1. Pinyin transcription of ?

lei

1. Nonstandard spelling of l?i.
2. Nonstandard spelling of léi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of l?i.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lèi.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?lej/

Verb

lei

1. third-person singular past indicative of leat

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ??/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leiðr.

Adjective

lei (masculine and feminine lei, neuter leit, definite singular and plural leie, comparative leiere, indefinite superlative leiest, definite superlative leieste)

1. uncomfortable, bothersome
2. bored, tired
3. sad, unfortunate

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leið.

Noun

lei f or m (definite singular leia or leien, indefinite plural leier, definite plural leiene)

1. direction
2. distance

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• (of lide) led

Verb

lei

1. simple past of lide
2. imperative of leie

References

• “lei” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leið.

Noun

lei f (definite singular leia, indefinite plural leier, definite plural leiene)

1. (maritime) route, sea route (a route, mostly along a coastline or between islands, that is safe to sail)
2. direction

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leiðr.

Adjective

lei (masculine and feminine lei, neuter leitt, definite singular and plural leie, comparative leiare, indefinite superlative leiast, definite superlative leiaste)

1. tired, fed up, bored
2. awkward, uncomfortable

lei seg

1. sad

Etymology 3

Verb

lei

1. imperative of leie

References

• “lei” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Article

lei m pl or f pl

1. (Provençal) plural of lo

Old French

Alternative forms

• lai
• loi
• leye
• laye

Etymology

From Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lei f (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lei, nominative plural lez)

1. a law

Related terms

• leal

Descendants

• Middle French: loy
  • French: loi
    • ? Haitian Creole: lalwa
    • ? Moore: laloa
• Norman: louai

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ley (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese lei, ley, from earlier lee, from Latin lex, l?gem, from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s < *le?-.

Cognate with Galician lei, Spanish ley, Catalan llei, Occitan lei, French loi, Italian legge and Romanian lege.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?l?j/, /?lej/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lej/, [?l?e??]
• Hyphenation: lei

Noun

lei f (plural leis)

1. law
   • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 1th canto:

     E aqueles, que por obras valerosas / Se vão da lei da morte libertando.

     And those who by valourous deeds free themselves from the law of Death.

Related terms

• leal
• legal
• legítimo
• lídimo

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lej/

Noun

lei m pl

1. plural of leu

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• leze

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ley, from Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lei

1. (Campidanese) law

Scots

Verb

lei (third-person singular present leis, present participle leiin, past leid, past participle leid)

1. (South Scots) Alternative form of lee.

Spanish

Noun

lei m pl

1. plural of leu

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lay. Cognates include Burmese ???? (hlya) and Tibetan ??? (lce).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i??/

Noun

lei

1. tongue

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lis. Cognates include Burmese ??? (mre) and Tibetan ???? (glyi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i???/

Noun

léi

1. ground, soil, land, earth

Etymology 3

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lay. Cognates include Burmese ?????? (hleka:, “ladder”) and Chinese ? (t?, “ladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i???/

Noun

lèi

1. bridge

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k/
• IPA: /l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Alternative forms

• laike (Yorkshire)

Etymology 1

From Germanic roots meaning "play". In the biology sense, it comes specifically from Swedish lek (“child's play”), by means of Swedish leka (“to play”). The verb is first attested in English in 1871 and the noun at least as early as 1867.

Noun

lek (plural leks)

2. (biology) an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display
   • 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, figure caption, 2000, page 333,

     Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek.

   • 2007, Kentwood D. Wells, The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians, page 352,

     Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses.

Translations

Verb

lek (third-person singular simple present leks, present participle lekking, simple past and past participle lekked)

1. (biology) to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek
   • 1994, M. B. Andersson, Sexual Selection, page 164,

     Males in many lekking species have conspicuous morphological ornaments that may be targets of female choice, but male contest competition may also be involved.

   • 2000, George Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution, page 79,

     The second reason lekking is so fascinating is because the males aggregate.

   • 2010, Boaz Yuval, Jorge Hendrichs 17: Behavior of Fruit Fly in the Genus Ceratitis (Dacinae: Ceratitidini), Martin Aluja, Allen Norrbom (editors), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior, page 437,

     In a recent study (Yuval et al. 1998), the size and weight of males captured either lekking or resting at the same time in the vicinity of leks were measured.

   • 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, unnumbered page,

     Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.

2. (Britain, dialect, Yorkshire, colloquial) to play

Translations

Usage notes

The Yorkshire dialect word is rarely written and is pronounced differently in the different Ridings of Yorkshire. Compare laik, layk.

Etymology 2

From Albanian lek, named after Alexander the Great, whose name is often shortened to Leka in Albanian.

Noun

lek (plural leks or leku or lekë)

2. the currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka
   • 1992, Mario I. Bléjer, Albania: From Isolation Toward Reform, page 56,

     With the loss of control by the Government over foreign exchange surrender requirements and the almost complete depletion of foreign exchange reserves, in early 1992 the official rate was further devalued to leks 50 = $1.

   • 1997, Igor Artimiev, Gary J. Fine, Country Studies: Albania, Ira W. Lieberman, Stilpon S. Nestor, Raj M. Desai, Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies, page 178,

     Enterprise shares are sold at voucher auctions in exchange for either immaterial privatization leks (through a bank transfer from the bidder's privatization lek account) or through privatization vouchers, which are submitted at the time of bidding.

   • 2003, Iraj Hoshi, Ewa Balcerowicz, Leszek Balcerowicz, Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition, page 253,

     Value Added Tax is another tax imposed on all enterprises with a yearly turnover of more than 2 million Leks. VAT was introduced in the Albanian tax system in 1995 replacing the old turnover tax.

Translations

Anagrams

• Elk, Kel, elk

Albanian

Etymology

Named after Alexander the Great, whose name is often shortened to Leka in Albanian.

Noun

lek m (indefinite plural lekë, definite singular leku)

1. lek (the currency unit of Albania)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch leken, from Old Dutch *lekan, from Proto-Germanic *lekan? (“to leak”). Or, from or related to laken (“to lack, blame”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

lek n (plural lekken, diminutive lekje n)

1. leak

Adjective

lek (comparative lekker, superlative lekst)

1. leaky

Inflection

Verb

lek

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

Anagrams

• elk

References

Isthmus Mixe

Noun

lek

1. toad

References

• Dieterman, Julia; McCarty, James Michael, Jr.; Castañón López, Victoriano; Castañón Eugenio, María Dolores (2018) Breve diccionario del mixe del Istmo: Mogoñé Viejo, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 52)?^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 37

Middle English

Noun

lek

1. Alternative form of leke

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leikr.

Alternative forms

• leik (Nynorsk also)

Noun

lek m (definite singular leken, indefinite plural leker, definite plural lekene)

1. play, playing
2. a game, contest

Derived terms

Related terms

• leke

Etymology 2

From Albanian lek.

Noun

lek m (indeclinable)

1. the lek, currency of Albania.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lek

1. imperative of leke

References

• “lek” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• kle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leikr, through Middle Low German from Ancient Greek ?????? (laïkós, “popular”).

Adjective

lek (masculine and feminine lek, neuter lekt, definite singular and plural leke, comparative lekare, indefinite superlative lekast, definite superlative lekaste)

1. lay

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lekr.

Alternative forms

• (adjective and noun) lekk

Adjective

lek (masculine and feminine lek, neuter lekt, definite singular and plural leke, comparative lekare, indefinite superlative lekast, definite superlative lekaste)

1. leaky

Noun

lek m (definite singular leken, indefinite plural lekar, definite plural lekane)

1. a leak

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lek

1. present tense of leka and leke
2. imperative of leka and leke

References

• “lek” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• elk, kle

Old Norse

Adjective

lek

1. inflection of lekr:
   1. positive degree strong feminine nominative singular
   2. positive degree strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Verb

lek

1. inflection of leka:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k/
• Homophone: leg

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?k?.

Noun

lek m inan

1. medicine

   Synonym: lekarstwo

Declension

Etymology 2

From Albanian lek.

Noun

lek m anim

1. lek (currency)

Declension

Further reading

• lek in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lek in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English leg.

Noun

lek

1. leg, foot (of a human)
2. limb (of an animal)

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• lij?k (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?k?, borrowed from Gothic ???????????????????????? (l?keis, “physician”). Compare Old Norse læknir, Old High German lahhi, Danish læge.

Noun

l?k m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. medicine

Declension

Related terms

References

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé?k/

Noun

l??k m inan

1. medicine

Inflection

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse leikr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l?ie?k?]

Noun

lek c

1. child's play; typically denotes pleasurable and less rule-bound games and activities
2. deck of cards

Declension

Related terms

Verb

lek

1. imperative of leka. free play

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English leg.

Noun

lek

1. leg, foot
2. footprint
3. hindleg (of an animal)

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /l?k?/

Adjective

lek

1. good

   Antonym: chopol

Derived terms

(Verbal phrases)

• leklek ba

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Zhuang

Alternative forms

• lik

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *?lek? (“iron”), from Old Chinese ? (OC *l??i??, “iron”). Cognate with Thai ????? (lèk), Lao ????? (lek), Shan ????? (lék), Tai Nüa ???? (l?k), Ahom ???????????????? (lik), Nong Zhuang liak. Doublet of diet.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /le?k??/
• Tone numbers: lek⁷
• Hyphenation: lek

Noun

lek (old orthography lek)

1. iron (metal).