leis

• IPA^(key): /leɪz/
• Homophone: lays

leis

1. plural of lei

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

leis f pl

1. plural of lei

• IPA^(key): /laɪ̯s/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯s

leis (comparative leiser, superlative am leisesten)

1. (colloquial, poetic) Alternative form of leise

• leis in Duden online

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

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɛʃ/

leis f (genitive singular leise, nominative plural leasracha)

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

• ceathrú f

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

• IPA^(key): /lʲɛʃ/

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 leis (“uncovered, bare”).

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɛʃ/

leis

1. uncovered, exposed

• (prepositional pronoun): Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• (prepositional pronoun): Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

• lieis
• lieys

leis

1. emphatic oblique form 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.

leis

1. plural of lei

leis

1. (South Scots) lies

leis

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

• IPA^(key): [leʃ]

leis

1. Alternative form of le

• This is the form is used before the definite article.

leis

1. with him, by him
2. with it, by it

• leis-san

• leatha