lesse

lesse (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of less.

• Seles, Slees, leses, seels, seles

• läse, lease (western Moselle Franconian)

From Old High German lesan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛzə/

lesse (third-person singular present liss or lisst or less or lesst, past tense los, past participle jelesse or gelesse)

1. (Ripuarian, eastern Moselle Franconian) to read

   Kanns de net lesse? Do steht et doch jeschrevve.

   Can't you read? It's written right there.

lesse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lessen

lesse

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ler

les +‎ -je

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛʃːɛ]
• Hyphenation: les‧se
• Rhymes: -ʃɛ

lesse

1. third-person singular subjunctive present definite of les

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛs.se/
• Rhymes: -ɛsse
• Hyphenation: lès‧se

lesse

1. third-person singular past historic of leggere

• IPA^(key): /ˈles.se/
• Rhymes: -esse
• Hyphenation: lés‧se

lesse

1. feminine plural of lesso

• lesce, lasse
• leasse, leas (Early Middle English)

From Old English lǣs, from Proto-Germanic *laisiz (“smaller, lesser, fewer, lower”).

• IPA^(key): /lɛs/, /lɛːs/

lesse

1. less

• English: less
• Yola: lhose, lass

• “lē̆s(se, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• Homophone: lê-se

lesse

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ler