different between leis vs reis

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

Alternative forms

• rais, ras

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (ra??s, “head, chief, leader”)

Noun

reis (plural reises)

1. (historical) The holder of a Turkish military rank akin to that of naval captain.

Translations

Anagrams

• EIRs, Eris, Iser, SIer, Seri, eirs, ires, rise, sire

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [r??i?s]

Noun

reis (plural [please provide])

1. journey

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Catalan

Noun

reis

1. plural of rei

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?i?s/
• Hyphenation: reis
• Rhymes: -?i?s
• Homophone: rijs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch reise, from Old Dutch *reisa, from Proto-West Germanic *raisu.

Noun

reis f or m (plural reizen, diminutive reisje n)

1. travel
2. trip, tour

Derived terms

• reizen
• bootreis
• busreis
• dromenreis
• droomreis
• groepsreis
• huwelijksreis
• motorreis
• reisverzekering
• reisbureau
• reischeque
• schoolreis
• treinreis

Descendants

• Afrikaans: reis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

reis

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

Anagrams

• Iers, Sier, sier

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *raici, of Baltic origin. Compare Lithuanian rietas (“thigh”), rietai. Cognates include Finnish reisi.

Noun

reis (genitive reie, partitive reit)

1. (anatomy) thigh

Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German reise

Noun

reis (genitive reisi, partitive reisi)

1. trip, journey

Declension

(humorous, poetic)

Derived terms

• reisibüroo

Galician

Noun

reis

1. plural of rei

Latin

Etymology 1

From reus.

Noun

re?s f

1. dative/ablative plural of rea

Etymology 2

From r?s.

Noun

re?s m

1. dative/ablative plural of reus

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

reis

1. imperative of reise

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

reis f (definite singular reisa, indefinite plural reiser, definite plural reisene)

1. Alternative form of reise

Etymology 2

Verb

reis

1. imperative of reise

Etymology 3

Verb

reis

1. past of risa

Old French

Noun

reis m

1. nominative singular of rei
   • circa 1250, Marie de France, Chevrefeuille

     Li reis Mars esteit curuciez

     King Marc was furious

2. oblique plural of rei

Old Occitan

Noun

reis m pl

1. inflection of rei:
   1. nominative plural
   2. oblique singular

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???j?/

Noun

reis m

1. plural of rei
2. Obsolete spelling of réis

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (ra??s, “head, chief, leader”).

Noun

reis (definite accusative reisi, plural reisler)

1. (obsolete) president

Synonyms

• ba?kan

Welsh

Alternative forms

• rheis, rhis, ris (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French ris (possibly via Middle English rys, compare modern English rice).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rei?s/

Noun

reis m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. rice

Derived terms

• corhedydd y caeau reis (“paddyfield pipit (Anthus rufulus)”)
• gwyfyn reis (“rice moth (Corcyra cephalonica)”)
• paur reis (“rice paper”)
• pwyth reis (“rice stitch”)
• reis brown (“brown rice”)
• reis gwyn (“white rice”)
• reis gwyllt (“wild rice”)
• reis miled (“smilo-grass (Oryzopsis miliacea)”)
• reis wedi'i ffrio ag wy (“egg-fried rice”)
• reis y gwter (“cut-grass (Leersia oryzoides)”)

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “reis”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From late Old Norse reisa, from Middle Low German reise.

Noun

reis f

1. Journey.

Synonyms

• fäl

Derived terms

• snipp-räis

Etymology 2

From Old Norse reisa (“raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raizijan?.

Verb

reis (preterite reist)

1. (transitive) To raise, to lever, to lift.

Synonyms

• (to lift): löft
• (to raise): riit