leis

• IPA^(key): /leɪz/
• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophone: lays

leis

1. plural of lei

• isle, Iles, Lise, %iles, sile, Sile, Elis, lies, slie, iles, Isle, ELIs

leis f pl

1. plural of lei

• IPA^(key): /laɪ̯s/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯s

leis (strong nominative masculine singular leiser, comparative leiser, superlative am leisesten)

1. (colloquial, poetic) Alternative form of leise

• “leis” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /lʲɛʃ/^[1][2]

leis (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

1. form of le (“with”) used before the definite article

   leis an mbuachaill ― with the boy

   leis na cailíní ― with the girls

• ris

leis (emphatic leis-sean)

1. third-person singular masculine of le

   D’oibrigh mé leis.

   I worked with him; I worked with it.

leis

1. also
2. (with negative) too, either

• (also): chomh maith, fosta, freisin

From Old Irish les (“buttock, hip, haunch; buttocks, posterior”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲɛʃ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɛʃ/

leis f (genitive singular leise, nominative plural leasracha)

1. (anatomy) thigh
2. (cooking) leg, haunch

• ceathrú f
• sliasaid f

• leisíneach (“person with game leg; person with limping gait; tardy person”)
• leisíneacht (“limping gait; tardiness”)

From Old Irish leis (“uncovered, bare”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲɛʃ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɛʃ/

leis

1. uncovered, exposed

• lieis
• lieys

leis

1. emphatic oblique of ela: her
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, canso:

     Quar senes lieys non puesc viure [...].

     For without her I cannot live.

   • c. 1160, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, vers:

     Qu'ilh val tant e m'es tan coraus, / Que ja de lieis no·m venra maus.
     For she is worth so much and is such a part of my heart that no ill will ever come to me from her.

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• Hyphenation: leis

leis

1. plural of lei

leis

1. (Southern Scots) lies

leis

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of lei

From Old Irish leiss. Cognates include Irish leis and Manx lesh.

• IPA^(key): /leʃ/
• Hyphenation: leis

leis (+ dative)

1. Form of le used before a definite article.

leis (emphatic leis-san)

1. third-person singular masculine of le: with him; by him

Personal inflection of le
Number	Person	Simple	Emphatic
Singular	1st	leam	leamsa
	2nd	leat	leatsa
	3rd m	leis	leis-san
	3rd f	leatha	leathase
Plural	1st	leinn	leinne
	2nd	leibh	leibhse
	3rd	leotha	leothasan

• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382