lés

See also: Appendix:Variations of "les"

French

Noun

lés m

  1. plural of lé

Anagrams

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /l͈ʲeːs/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlenstus; compare Latin splendeō, Tocharian A plāntā- (“rejoice”).[1] Alternatively, borrowed from Old Norse ljós.[2]

Noun

lés m

  1. light, radiance
  2. daylight
  3. illumination (of the mind)
Inflection
Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lés lésL lésaeH
Vocative lés lésL lésu
Accusative lésN lésL lésu
Genitive lésoH, lésaH lésoL, lésaL lésaeN
Dative lésL lésaib lésaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Middle Irish: lés, lóess

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*flenstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 133
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

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Noun

lés m

  1. bag
  2. bladder
Inflection
Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lés lésL lésae
Vocative lés lésL lésu
Accusative lésN lésL lésu
Genitive lésoH, lésaH léso, lésa lésaeN
Dative lésL lésaib lésaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Further reading

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
lés
also llés after a proclitic		 lés
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ(j)s/ [ˈlɛ(ɪ̯)s]

  • Hyphenation: lés

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French lez, from Latin latus.[1] Doublet of lado.

Particle

lés

  1. Used in the adverbial phrase de lés a lés.

Etymology 2

From leste.

Noun

lés m (plural leses)

  1. east (one of the four principal compass points)

References
  1. “lés” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
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