lia

From Malay lihat.

lia

1. (intransitive) to see
2. (transitive) to look at

   Beta ada lia-lia baju sa ni. ― I'm just looking at clothes now.

3. (transitive) to watch
4. (transitive) to observe
5. (transitive) to spy, peek, snoop

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

li +‎ -a

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: li‧a

lia (accusative singular lian, plural liaj, accusative plural liajn)

1. (possessive) his

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lia

1. third-person singular past historic of lier

• ail, lai

lia

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

From Proto-Malayic *halia by metathesis from earlier variant *lahia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laqia (“ginger”).

• IPA^(key): /liaʔ/

lia

1. ginger (Zingiber officinale)

lia

1. (possessive) their

From Middle Irish lía, from Old Irish lië,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *līwanks (compare *līwos), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”) (compare Ancient Greek λᾶας (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”)).

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiə/, /lʲiə/
• Homophone: liath (Connacht, Ulster)

lia m (genitive singular lia, nominative plural liaga)

1. stone, pillar-stone

• lia longadáin (“logan, logan stone, rocking stone”)

From Old Irish líaig,^[2] cognate with Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis) and English leech (“physician”).

• liaigh (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiə/
• (Cork) IPA^(key): /lʲiəɡ/ (corresponding to the form liag)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲəi/, ^[3] (corresponding to the form liaigh)
• Homophone: liath (Connacht)

lia m (genitive singular lia, nominative plural lianna)

1. healer, physician

From Old Irish lië,^[4] from Proto-Celtic *liyants (compare Welsh lliant), present participle of *liyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (compare Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Lithuanian líeti).

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiə/, /lʲiə/
• Homophone: liath (Connacht, Ulster)

lia m (genitive singular lia)

1. (literary) flood, torrent

From Old Irish lïa (superlative of il (“many, much”)), from Proto-Celtic *ɸlīyos, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-yōs.

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiə/, /lʲiə/
• Homophone: liath (Connacht, Ulster)

lia

1. more, more numerous

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

līā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of līō

• lia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

lia

1. Nonstandard spelling of liǎ.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

lia f

1. definite singular of li

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From Proto-Celtic *ɸleis, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-yōs.

lïa

1. comparative degree of il: more
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23^b7

     Hóre am essamin-se precepte asmo chuimriug, is lïa de creitfess.

     Since I am fearless in preaching out of my captivity, the more it is who will believe.

• Irish: lia

Univerbation of la (“with”) +‎ a (“his, her, their”)

lïa

1. (triggers lenition) with his, its m
2. (triggers h-prothesis) with her, its f
3. (triggers nasalization) with their

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Homophone: Lia
• Hyphenation: li‧a

lia

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ler
2. inflection of liar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

lia

1. Obsolete form of li.

• lia in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• ligia (Sursilvan)
• leia (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

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

lia f (plural lias)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) league

• IPA^(key): /ˈlja/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: lia

lia

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of liar

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-lia (infinitive kulia)

1. Applicative form of -la: to eat with, for, or at

• Nominal derivations:
  • mkono wa kulia (“the right hand”)

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

-lia (infinitive kulia)

1. to cry, despair, lament

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -lilia
  • Causative: -liza
  • Passive: -liliwa
  • Reciprocal: -liana
  • Stative: -lilika

• Nominal derivations:
  • mlizi

See the Tetum noun lian.

lia

1. word
2. language

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lia

1. to throw at an angle, to throw with a spin
   • 2001, Chu Lai, Cuộc đời dài lắm, NXB Văn học, page 203:

     Tiện tay anh lia luôn cuốn sổ vào gầm bàn, gừ lên một tiếng nữa.

     With a turn of his hand, he threw the notebook under the table and grunted once more.

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