ler

• IPA^(key): /leːˀr/, [ˈleˀɐ̯], [ˈleɐ̯ˀ]

From Old Danish leer, from Old Norse leir, from Proto-Germanic *laizą, cognate with Norwegian leire, Swedish lera. Probably from the Indo-European root *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).

ler n (singular definite leret, not used in plural form)

1. clay

• “ler” in Den Danske Ordbog
• ler on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ler

1. present tense of le

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese leer, from Latin legere. Compare Portuguese ler.

• IPA^(key): [ˈleɾ]

ler (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite lín, past participle lido)
ler (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite lim or li, past participle lido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to read

• reler
• trasler
• lector
• lectura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “leer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “leer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ler”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ler”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ler”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “whence r?”)

• IPA^(key): [ɾa̠ː]

ler(ラー) • (-rā) 

1. alternative form of er (ā)

ler

1. (Sendinese) alternative form of lher

• IPA^(key): /leːr/
• Rhymes: -eːr

ler

1. present of le

ler

1. present of le

• lez (likely a misspelling)

Unknown. Likely from Proto-Celtic *liros.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɾ/

ler m (plural lers)

1. sea, beach, shore
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Nuno Fernandes Torneol, B 645: Vi eu mia madr'andar (facsimile)

     Foy eu madre veer / As barcas eno lez (sic) / E moirome damor

     I went, mother, to see / the boats at the shore, / and I'm dying of love.

• Do not confuse with leer (“to read”).

From Proto-Celtic *liros, either borrowed from an unknown substrate language or from Proto-Indo-European *leyH-.^[1] Cognate with Welsh llŷr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲer/

ler m or n (genitive lir)

1. (masculine) sea, ocean
2. (neuter) a lot, multitude, large number

As a masculine noun meaning "sea, ocean":

As a neuter noun meaning "a lot, large number, multitude":

• Irish: lear
• Scottish Gaelic: lear

• (sea, ocean): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ler”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• (a lot, multitude): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ler”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese leer, from Latin legere (“to read”). Compare Galician ler and Spanish leer.

• Homophone: lê (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ler

ler (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite li, past participle lido)

1. to read (to look at and interpret written information)
2. to read (to speak aloud written information)
3. (computing) to read (to fetch data from)
4. (reflexive, of text) to read (to be interpreted or read in a particular way)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ler.

• Macanese: lê
• → Makalero: leh (“to read”)

From Latin legō, legere.

ler

1. (Puter) to read

• leger (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader)
• liger (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

ler

1. (Sutsilvan) alternative form of vuler

Borrowed from German leer.

• IPA^(key): /lêːr/
• Hyphenation: ler

lȇr m inan (Cyrillic spelling ле̑р)

1. (regional, automotive) neutral

• “ler”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

ler c

1. clay; contraction of lera, in the expression ler och långhalm

ler

1. present indicative of le

• elr