different between pees vs lees

English

Noun

pees

1. plural of pee

Verb

pees

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pee

Anagrams

• Sepe, eeps, seep

Belizean Creole

Etymology 1

Noun

pees

1. piece (part of a larger whole)

Etymology 2

Noun

pees

1. peace

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 261.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?s/
• Hyphenation: pees
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pese. See vezel (“fiber, sinew”).

Noun

pees f (plural pezen, diminutive peesje n)

1. A sinew.

Derived terms

• pezig
• zenuwpees

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pees

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

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman peis, from Latin pax

Noun

pees (uncountable)

1. peace

Spanish

Verb

pees

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

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.