lia

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlia/
• Hyphenation: li‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

lia (accusative singular lian, plural liaj, accusative plural liajn)

1. (possessive) his

• ĝia
• onia
• sia
• ŝia

lia

1. third-person singular past historic of lier

• ail, lai

lia

1. (possessive) their

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiə/

From Old Irish lïa, from Proto-Celtic *līwanks, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“stone”) (compare Ancient Greek λᾶας (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”)).

lia m (genitive singular lia, nominative plural liaga)

1. stone, pillar-stone

• lia longadáin (“logan, logan stone, rocking stone”)

From Old Irish líaig, cognate with Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis) and English leech (“physician”).

• liaigh (obsolete)

lia m (genitive singular lia, nominative plural lianna)

1. healer, physician

From Old Irish lië, from Proto-Celtic *liyants (compare Welsh lliant), present participle of *liyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (compare Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Lithuanian líeti).

lia m (genitive singular lia)

1. (literary) flood, torrent

From the stem of Old Irish il (“many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁-.

lia

1. more, more numerous

• "lia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 lía” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 lía” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “1 líaig” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “lia” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “lia” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

līā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of līō

• lia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lia in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

lia

1. Nonstandard spelling of liǎ.

• 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.

lia f

1. definite singular of li

lia

1. First-person singular (eu) imperfect indicative of ler
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) imperfect indicative of ler

• (Sursilvan) ligia
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) leia

lia f (plural lias)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) league

• IPA^(key): /lja/

lia

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of liar.

-lia (infinitive kulia)

1. Applicative form of -la: to eat with, for, or at

• mkono wa kulia

-lia (infinitive kulia)

1. to cry, despair, lament

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -lilia
  • Causative: -liza
  • Passive: -liliwa
  • Reciprocal: -liana
  • Stative: -lilika

lia

1. water