lê

From a merger of Dutch leggen (“to lay”) and liggen (“to lie”). Formally, the forms with -ê- are from leggen, while the alternative present participle is from liggen (as is the lexicalised past participle geleë).

• IPA^(key): /lɛː/, [lɛ̞ː]

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lê (present lê, present participle liggende, past participle gelê)

1. (intransitive) to lie (to be in a horizontal position)

   Hy lê op die bed.

   He's lying on the bed.

2. (transitive) to lay (to put into a horizontal position)

   Hy lê sy tas op die bed.

   He lays his bag on the bed.

• (to lay): neerlê (more common)

• geleë

• lî (Bolognese)

From Latin illa (feminine of ille), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognates include French elle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː/
• Hyphenation: lê

lê (personal, disjunctive case)

1. she, her (emphatic form)

lê

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ler:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Probably from Spanish ley.

lê

1. law

• IPA^(key): /leː/

lê

1. he, him
2. she, her (accusative)
3. it

• Because the pronoun is not gender-specific, it is followed:
  • by o if the gender is masculine

    lê o l'é bèllo ― he is handsome

  • by a if the gender is feminine

    lê a l'é bèlla ― she is beautiful

• mi
• ti
• noî, niâtri
• voî, viâtri
• lô, liâtri

From Portuguese ler.

lê

1. (ambitransitive) to read

   tâ lê ― he is reading

   Si cava lê, pegá dá, nadi assi consumido.

   To give it back after reading, it won't be as annoying.

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

• Rhymes: -eː

lê

1. but

• Rhymes: -e

• Hyphenation: lê
• Homophone: ler (Brazil)

lê m (plural lês)

1. (Northeast Brazil) The name of the Latin script letter L/l.

   Synonym: ele

lê

1. inflection of ler:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. apocopic form of ler; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
3. eye dialect spelling of ler, representing Brazil Portuguese

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é, efe, gê / guê, agá, i, jota, cá / capa, ele, eme, ene, ó, pê, quê, erre, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio, xis, ípsilon, zê

• “lê”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [le˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lej˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 梨.

(classifier cây, trái, quả) lê

1. pear

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lê • (黎)

1. to drag something