lé
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Old French adjective lé (“‘large’”), from Latin latus.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /le/
[edit] Noun
lé m. (plural lés)
[edit] Hungarian
[edit] Etymology
From the same Finno-Ugric root *leme as Finnish liemi
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
[edit] Declension
The accusative and the plural form can also be lét and lék respectively. (The sense money uses only the lét/lék form)
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declension of lé
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[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Old Norse
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lewan-, whence also Middle Low German lē, lēhe. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“‘to cut’”), whence also Ancient Greek λαῖον (laîon), “‘scythe’”).
[edit] Noun
lé m.
[edit] Declension
The word declines as one would expect a weak masculine noun with the stem lé-, but is affected in late West Norse (but not in the Faroe Islands) in all forms except the nominative singular by the regular phonetic change éa > já. In the nominative the regular case ending -i is assimilated into the long é. This also causes awkward application of the suffixed article in the accusative and genitive singular, where one would normally expect its i to be elided in favour of the weak case ending -a (without the change éa > já, these would be *léann and *léans); the accusative singular with suffixed article is attested as ljáinn in Flateyjarbók (late 14th century). Note also that the forms may not all be attested.
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lé | léinn | ljár | ljárnir |
| Accusative | ljá | ljáinn | ljá | ljána |
| Dative | ljá | ljánum | ljám | ljánum |
| Genitive | ljá | ljáins | ljá | ljánna |
