lêze

See also: leze, lezę, leže, leże, leżę, léze, and Lèze

Jersey Dutch

Etymology

From Dutch lezen, from Middle Dutch lēsen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːzə/

Verb

lêze

1. to read

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin legere, present active infinitive of legō (“I read” ← “I gather, collect”), from Proto-Italic *legō, derived from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːze/

Verb

lêze

1. (transitive, intransitive) to read (to look at and interpret letters or other information that is written)
   • 14^th–15^th century, anonymous author, “De le vertue et de li vicii [Of virtues and vices]”, in Omelie latine, con miniat[ure] rappresentanti i vizî e le virtù ed alcuni episodi della vita di Gesù Cristo, con le relative illustrazioni in volgare – Il Passio secondo S. Matteo e varie preci latine – Oremus tradotti in volgare – Leggenda di S. Giov. Battista (manuscript), Iustixia [Justice], page 13:

     E lo quarto fruito de la iuſtixia ſi he ſegundo che ſe leze in lo libꝛo deuteromomio^[sic], che la iuſtixia de la ꝑſona ĩnocente ⁊ ſimplice ſi la deriza in la uia de De ⁊ no lo laxa erra.

     [E lo quarto fruito de la iustixia si è, segundo che se leze in lo libro Deuteronomio, che la iustixia de la persona innocente e simplice si la deriza in la via de Dé, e no lo laxa errà.]

     And the fourth fruit of Justice is — according to what is read in the book of Deuteronomy — that the Justice of the innocent, simple person straightens them on the way of God, and doesn't let them do wrong.

     (literally, “And the fourth fruit of Justice is, according to what one reads in the book Deuteronomy, that the Justice of the person innocent and simple straightens them on the way of God, and doesn't let them err.”)

References

• “lêze” Ligurian-Italian dictionary at Ligu.re

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːzə/

Verb

lêze

1. to read

Inflection

Strong class 5
infinitive	lêze
3rd singular past	lies
past participle	lêzen
infinitive	lêze
long infinitive	lêzen
gerund	lêzen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	lês	lies
2nd singular	lêst	liest
3rd singular	lêst	lies
plural	lêze	liezen
imperative	lês
participles	lêzend	lêzen

Further reading

• “lêze”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011