lej

Clipping of English Lengola with j as a placeholder.

lej

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lengola.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lengola terms

• le

From Proto-Albanian *laidnja, from an Proto-Indo-European o-grade verb from the root *leyd- (“to release”).^[1][2] Alternatively from an *éy-present from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”).^[3]

lej (aorist leva, participle lerë)

1. to give birth, bear (children)
2. to be born
3. to rise (of the sun)

   Leu dielli. ― The sun rose up.

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• lind

• lenicë

• lind
• ^? vëlla

• “lej”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛj]

lej

1. second-person singular imperative of lít

   Synonym: lij

• IPA^(key): /lɑj/, [lɑjˀ]
• Homophone: leg

lej

1. imperative of leje

Borrowed from Romanian lei, plural of leu (“leu”) (literally, "lion"), from Latin leō (“lion”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛj]
• Hyphenation: lej
• Rhymes: -ɛj

lej (plural lejek)

1. leu (currency of Romania)
2. leu (currency of Moldova)

• jel

• lij

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lijь.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /lʲɛːj/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /lʲej/

lej m animacy unattested

1. funnel

   Synonym: napław

   • 1874 [1393], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące‎^[2], volume XV, page 170:

     Pro fusorio ferreo, quod dicitur lyg, quo pocula funduntur in vasa

     [Pro fusorio ferreo, quod dicitur lij, quo pocula funduntur in vasa]

• Polish: lej

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “lej”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Syllabification: lej

Inherited from Old Polish lej.

lej m inan (diminutive lejek)

1. large funnel
2. crater, shell-pit

Borrowed from Romanian leu, from Latin leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

lej m animal

1. leu (currency of Moldova and Romania)

• leja

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lej

1. second-person singular imperative of lać

• lej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lej in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• lag (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• lai (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
• laitg (Sutsilvan)

From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

lej m (plural lejs)

1. (Puter) lake

• Rhymes: -ɛj

lej

1. imperative of leja