lés

lés m

1. plural of lé

• sel

• IPA^(key): /l͈ʲeːs/

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlenstus; compare Latin splendeō, Tocharian A plāntā- (“rejoice”).^[1] Alternatively, borrowed from Old Norse ljós.^[2]

lés m

1. light, radiance
2. daylight
3. illumination (of the mind)

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lés	lésL	lésaeH
Vocative	lés	lésL	lésu
Accusative	lésN	lésL	lésu
Genitive	lésoH, lésaH	lésoL, lésaL	lésaeN
Dative	lésL	lésaib	lésaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• dolus
• solus

• Middle Irish: lés, lóess
  • Irish: léas, leos

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lés m

1. bag
2. bladder

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lés	lésL	lésae
Vocative	lés	lésL	lésu
Accusative	lésN	lésL	lésu
Genitive	lésoH, lésaH	léso, lésa	lésaeN
Dative	lésL	lésaib	lésaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 lés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lés also llés after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lés pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Hyphenation: lés

Borrowed from Old French lez, from Latin latus.^[1] Doublet of lado.

lés

1. Used in the adverbial phrase de lés a lés.

From leste.

lés m (plural leses)

1. east (one of the four principal compass points)