different between lei vs lieu

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?, IPA^(key): /le?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: lay, ley

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian lei.

Noun

lei (plural leis)

1. A garland of flowers in Hawaii.

Derived terms

• haku lei

Translations

See also

• Lei (Hawaii) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Romanian lei

Noun

lei

1. plural of leu

Anagrams

• %ile, -ile, EIL, Eli, Ile, LIE, Lie, ile, lie

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

• (Morvan) leu

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lei m (plural leis)

1. place

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?i?
• IPA^(key): /l?i/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch leye, probably an old Germanic loan from Gaulish *l?i, from Proto-Celtic *l?wanks (compare *l?wos (“stone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leh?w- (“stone”), see also Ancient Greek ???? (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”).

Noun

lei f (plural leien, diminutive leitje n)

1. (uncountable) slate (material)
2. (countable) slate (object)

Derived terms

• leien
• leisteen
• met een schone lei herbeginnen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch leide, with a change gi > i similar to that seen in brein.

Verb

lei

1. (archaic) singular imperative of leggen

Anagrams

• iel

Finnish

Noun

lei

1. A lei (Hawaiian garland of flowers).
2. (nonstandard, obsolete) A leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova).

Declension

Synonyms

• (unit of currency): leu

See also

• kukkaseppele

Anagrams

• eli, lie

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin legere, present active infinitive of leg?.

Verb

lei (past participle let)

1. to read

Related terms

• letôr
• leture
• lezion

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lei/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese lei, ley, from earlier lee, from Latin lex, l?gem, from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s < *le?-.

Noun

lei f (plural leis)

1. law (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. religion, credence, worship of a god

Related terms

• leal

Etymology 2

Noun

lei m pl

1. plural of leu

Hawaiian

Noun

lei (ka)

1. lei, a wreath of flowers or leaves
2. necklace
3. ( by extension ) child, carried on the shoulders like a lei

Verb

lei

1. to leap

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illei or *illaei, which is a Vulgar Latin form of Classical Latin ill? (dative singular of illa). The Vulgar Latin form *illei is modelled under influence of Vulgar Latin *ill?i, whence also lui.The formal address Lei appears in the 16th century in connection with Signoria (“Lordship”), Eccellenza (“Excellency”), Santità (“Holiness”) and Magnificenza, alongside Voi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?j/

Pronoun

lei f (plural loro, masculine lui)

1. she
2. her
3. it
   • 1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161:

     La pioggia cadde, e a’ fo??ati venne / Di lei ciò che la terra non ?offer?e

     The rain fell and into the channels ran / Whatever of it was not absorbed by the ground

   • ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 228:

     […] videro il drappo, et in quello la testa, non ancor sì consumata, che essi alla capellatura crespa non conoscessero lei esser quella di Lorenzo.

     […] they saw the cloth and the head wrapped inside it, which was not yet sufficiently decomposed that they could not help but identify it, from the curly hair, as being Lorenzo’s.

   • ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 512:

     […] Filomena in ciò che dell’amistà dice, racconta il vero, e con ragione nel fine delle sue parole si dolse lei oggi così poco da’ mortali esser gradita.

     […] Philomena is in the right as to what she has said upon friendship; and it was with reason she complained, last of all, of its being in such little esteem with mankind […]

   • 1984, Stefano Benni, Stranalandia, Feltrinelli (2015), page 76:

     La banana di Stranalandia è alla base dell’economia dell’isola. Senza di lei la vita qui sarebbe molto dura.

     The banana of Strangeland forms the basis of the island’s economy. Without it, life here would be very tough.

Synonyms

• ella
• essa

Related terms

• colei

Pronoun

lei m (plural loro)

1. (formal) you

   Synonym: (uncommon) voi

Derived terms

• a lei
• dare del lei

Alternative forms

• Lei

See also

• dare del lei

References

Anagrams

• eli

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Verb

lei

1. second-person singular imperative of leien

Mandarin

Romanization

lei (Zhuyin ???)

1. Pinyin transcription of ?

lei

1. Nonstandard spelling of l?i.
2. Nonstandard spelling of léi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of l?i.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lèi.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?lej/

Verb

lei

1. third-person singular past indicative of leat

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ??/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leiðr.

Adjective

lei (masculine and feminine lei, neuter leit, definite singular and plural leie, comparative leiere, indefinite superlative leiest, definite superlative leieste)

1. uncomfortable, bothersome
2. bored, tired
3. sad, unfortunate

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leið.

Noun

lei f or m (definite singular leia or leien, indefinite plural leier, definite plural leiene)

1. direction
2. distance

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• (of lide) led

Verb

lei

1. simple past of lide
2. imperative of leie

References

• “lei” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leið.

Noun

lei f (definite singular leia, indefinite plural leier, definite plural leiene)

1. (maritime) route, sea route (a route, mostly along a coastline or between islands, that is safe to sail)
2. direction

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leiðr.

Adjective

lei (masculine and feminine lei, neuter leitt, definite singular and plural leie, comparative leiare, indefinite superlative leiast, definite superlative leiaste)

1. tired, fed up, bored
2. awkward, uncomfortable

lei seg

1. sad

Etymology 3

Verb

lei

1. imperative of leie

References

• “lei” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Article

lei m pl or f pl

1. (Provençal) plural of lo

Old French

Alternative forms

• lai
• loi
• leye
• laye

Etymology

From Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lei f (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lei, nominative plural lez)

1. a law

Related terms

• leal

Descendants

• Middle French: loy
  • French: loi
    • ? Haitian Creole: lalwa
    • ? Moore: laloa
• Norman: louai

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ley (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese lei, ley, from earlier lee, from Latin lex, l?gem, from Proto-Italic *l?g-, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-s < *le?-.

Cognate with Galician lei, Spanish ley, Catalan llei, Occitan lei, French loi, Italian legge and Romanian lege.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?l?j/, /?lej/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lej/, [?l?e??]
• Hyphenation: lei

Noun

lei f (plural leis)

1. law
   • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 1th canto:

     E aqueles, que por obras valerosas / Se vão da lei da morte libertando.

     And those who by valourous deeds free themselves from the law of Death.

Related terms

• leal
• legal
• legítimo
• lídimo

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lej/

Noun

lei m pl

1. plural of leu

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• leze

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ley, from Latin lex, legem.

Noun

lei

1. (Campidanese) law

Scots

Verb

lei (third-person singular present leis, present participle leiin, past leid, past participle leid)

1. (South Scots) Alternative form of lee.

Spanish

Noun

lei m pl

1. plural of leu

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lay. Cognates include Burmese ???? (hlya) and Tibetan ??? (lce).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i??/

Noun

lei

1. tongue

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lis. Cognates include Burmese ??? (mre) and Tibetan ???? (glyi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i???/

Noun

léi

1. ground, soil, land, earth

Etymology 3

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lay, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lay. Cognates include Burmese ?????? (hleka:, “ladder”) and Chinese ? (t?, “ladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i???/

Noun

lèi

1. bridge

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: loo (in some accents)

Noun

lieu (uncountable)

1. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of

Translations

Anagrams

• euil, liue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ljø/
• Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues

Etymology 1

From Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit
• place

Derived terms

Related terms

• louer
• loyer
• location

Etymology 2

From Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. any of several fish from the Pollachius family.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lieu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French leu.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)

1. place

Descendants

• French: lieu

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. (Jersey) whiting (fish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) liug
• (Sutsilvan) liac
• (Surmiran) li
• (Puter, Vallader) lö

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) place