lés

See also: Appendix:Variations of "les"

French

Noun

lés m

  1. plural of lé

Anagrams

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /l͈ʲeːs/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlenstus; compare Latin splendeō, Tocharian A plāntā- (“rejoice”).[1]. Alternatively, borrowed from Old Norse ljós.[2]

Noun

lés ?

  1. light, radiance
  2. daylight
  3. illumination (of the mind)
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

lés m

  1. bag
  2. bladder
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 3

Noun

lés m

  1. Alternative form of lías

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
lés
also llés after a proclitic		 lés
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/		 lés
also llés after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*flenstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 133
  2. “lés” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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