lesan

• lèzan (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German lesen, from Old High German lesan. Cognate with German lesen, English lease (“to gather”).

lesan (strong class 5 , auxiliary håm)

1. (Luserna) to read

• aulesan

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną. The sense “to read”, found throughout North and West Germanic except English, is a semantic loan from Latin legō.

lesan

1. to gather, to collect
2. to read

• Middle Dutch: lēsen
  • Dutch: lezen
    • Afrikaans: lees
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: lesi
    • Javindo: lesen
    • Jersey Dutch: lêze
    • Negerhollands: lees
    • → Lokono: alesedin
    • →? Mahican: lesówu
    • → Papiamentu: lesa, leza
    • → Sranan Tongo: leisi
      • Aukan: leisi
      • Saramaccan: lési
      • → Caribbean Javanese: lési
      • → Kari'na: resima
  • Limburgish: laeze, leuze

• “lesan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.sɑn/, [ˈle.zɑn].

lesan

1. to gather, collect

• Middle English: lesen
  • English: lease

From Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to collect”). The sense “to read”, found throughout North and West Germanic except English, is a semantic loan from Latin legō.

lësan

1. to read, to read aloud
2. to examine
3. to collect

• Middle High German: lësen
  • Alemannic German: läse, lääse
  • Bavarian: lesn

    Cimbrian: lesan, lèzan (Sette Comuni)

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: lese

  • German: lesen
  • Luxembourgish: liesen
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: lese

  • Vilamovian: łaoza

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

From Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną. The sense ‘to read’, found throughout North and West Germanic except English, is a semantic loan from Latin legō.

lesan

1. to gather, collect
2. to read

• German Low German: lesen