lees

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lees"

English

Etymology 1

From Old French lies, from Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).

Noun

lees pl (plural only)

1. The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:

     Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:

     Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.

Synonyms

• (sediment): dregs

Related terms

• lie

Translations

the sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit

• Armenian: մրուր (hy) (mrur)
• Bulgarian: утайка (bg) f (utajka)
• Catalan: pòsit (ca) m
• Esperanto: feĉo
• Finnish: sakka (fi)
• French: lie (fr) f
• Galician: borra (gl) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύξ f sg (trúx)

• Hungarian: seprő (hu), üledék (hu), alja (hu)
• Icelandic: dreggjar m pl, botnfall (is) n
• Irish: moirt f, dríodar m, amhaisc f (literary)
• Italian: feccia (it) f
• Japanese: 澱 (ja) (ori)
• Latin: floces f pl
• Lithuanian: drum̃zlės f pl
• Russian: оса́док (ru) m (osádok)
• Spanish: heces (es) f pl, hez (es) f (rare)
• Welsh: gwaelodion m pl

Etymology 2

Noun

lees

1. plural of lee

Anagrams

• slee, Slee, lese, EELS, eels, Else, seel, else, sele, ELEs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lezen, from Middle Dutch lēsen (“to collect, gather, read”), from Old Dutch lesan (“to gather, read”), from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪəs/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

lees (present lees, present participle lesende, past participle gelees)

1. to read

Related terms

• leser

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːs

Verb

lees

1. inflection of lezen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• slee

Galician

Verb

lees

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of lear

Luxembourgish

Verb

lees

1. second-person singular present indicative of leeën

North Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

Verb

lees

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) to read

Conjugation

Conjugation of lees (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

infinitive I	lees
infinitive II	(tu) leesen
past participle	leesen
imperative singular	lees
imperative plural	lees’m
	present	past
1st singular	lees	lus
2nd singular	leest	lust
3rd singular	leest	lus
plural	lees	lus
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa leesen	hed leesen
2nd singular	heest leesen	hedst leesen
3rd singular	hee leesen	hed leesen
plural	haa leesen	hed leesen
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skal lees	wal lees
2nd singular	skääl lees	wääl lees
3rd singular	skal lees	wal lees
plural	skel lees	wel lees

Conjugation of lees (Sylt dialect)

infinitive I	lees
infinitive II	(tö) leesen
past participle	leesen
imperative	lees
	present	past
1st singular	lees	los
2nd singular	last	lost
3rd singular	last	los
plural / dual	lees	los
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa leesen	her leesen
2nd singular	heest leesen	herst leesen
3rd singular	heer leesen	her leesen
plural / dual	haa leesen	her leesen
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skel lees	wel lees
2nd singular	sket lees	wet lees
3rd singular	skel lees	wel lees
plural / dual	skel lees	wel lees

Alternative forms

• leese (Mooring)

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian *hletha (attested in the past participle hleden), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

Verb

lees

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to load

Conjugation

Conjugation of lees (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

infinitive I	lees
infinitive II	(tu) leesen
past participle	leesen
imperative singular	lees
imperative plural	lees’m
	present	past
1st singular	lees	lus
2nd singular	leest	lust
3rd singular	leest	lus
plural	lees	lus
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa leesen	hed leesen
2nd singular	heest leesen	hedst leesen
3rd singular	hee leesen	hed leesen
plural	haa leesen	hed leesen
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skal lees	wal lees
2nd singular	skääl lees	wääl lees
3rd singular	skal lees	wal lees
plural	skel lees	wel lees

Alternative forms

• leese (Mooring)
• leer (Sylt)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlees/ [ˈle.es]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ees
• Syllabification: le‧es

Verb

lees

1. second-person singular present indicative of leer