different between leis vs lewis

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English lewis, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French lous, plural of lou, loup (“the name of a kind of siege engine”, literally “wolf”); or related to clevis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu??s/
• Hyphenation: lew?is

Noun

lewis (plural lewises)

1. A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry.

   Synonym: lewisson

2. (by extension, figuratively) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age.
3. A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth.
   • 1835, Andrew Ure, The philosophy of manufactures (page 203)

     After the preeming period, the lads are put either to the gig-machines, or to the lewises in the cutting or shearing-room.

Anagrams

• Liews, Weils, Wiles, lweis, wesil, wiles