lí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "li"

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish lí, from Proto-Celtic *līwos. Cognate with Welsh lliw.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /l̠ʲiː/

Noun

lí f (genitive singular lí, nominative plural líocha)

  1. color, complexion
  2. lustre, sheen
    lí gréine ar an ngaineamh ― sun's brightness on the sand
  3. coloring-matter, pigment
  4. pigmentation
Derived terms

Alternative forms
  • lighe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

Noun

lí f (genitive singular lí)

  1. verbal noun of ligh
  2. licking
  3. fawning

Verb

lí

  1. present subjunctive analytic of ligh

Mandarin

Alternative forms
  • li (nonstandard)

Pronunciation
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Romanization

lí (li2, Zhuyin ㄌㄧˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 刕.
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 剓.
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 剺.
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劙.
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喱.
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚟.
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囄.
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫠.
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孋.
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孷.
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 廲.
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 悡.
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 摙.
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攡.
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 斃.
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 杙.
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梨.
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梩.
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 梸.
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 棃.
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樆.
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氂.
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漓.
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漦.
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灍.
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灕.
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 牥.
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犁, 犂.
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犛.
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狸.
  31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琋.
  32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璃, 瓈.
  33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 睝.
  34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秙.
  35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穲.
  36. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 篱, 籬.
  37. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 粍.
  38. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 粚.
  39. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 糎.
  40. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 縭, 缡.
  41. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纗.
  42. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罹.
  43. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 艃.
  44. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 莇.
  45. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菞.
  46. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蓠.
  47. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔾.
  48. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薶.
  49. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藜.
  50. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘺.
  51. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蜊.
  52. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟍.
  53. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟰.
  54. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠞.
  55. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠢.
  56. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褵.
  57. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 謧.
  58. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貍.
  59. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邌.
  60. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酈.
  61. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酶.
  62. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醨.
  63. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釁.
  64. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釐, 厘.
  65. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鋫.
  66. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錅.
  67. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鏫.
  68. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鑗.
  69. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 離, 离.
  70. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霽.
  71. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 騹.
  72. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 驪, 骊.
  73. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 髣.
  74. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯬.
  75. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鱺, 鲡.
  76. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵹.
  77. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鸝, 鹂.
  78. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麖.
  79. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黎.
  80. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黐.
  81. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黧.
  82. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㒿.
  83. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㓯.
  84. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 浬.

Matagalpa

Noun

lí

  1. water

References

Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of lí – see 你 (“you”).
(This character, lí, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 你.)
For pronunciation and definitions of lí – see 李 (“plum; a surname.”).
(This character, lí, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 李.)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *līwos.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /l͈ʲiː/

Noun

lí f

  1. beauty, luster, brilliance, glory
    • "Hail Brigit", from the Book of Leinster, published in Hail Brigit: an Old-Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn. ed. and trans. Kuno Meyer. Halle a.S., M. Niemeyer, 1912.
      Fodbae Feradaig, fó mind, [...] a brat líg, [...]
      The spoils of Feradach: a good diadem, [...], its shining robes...
  2. brightness, color
    • c. 800, Stowe Missal, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 250, lines 11-12
      Líi gréne fris·ben att, benith galar.
      The sun's brightness that heals the swelling, it will quell the disease.

Inflection

This noun possessed a peculiar declension. In the singular and dual, it was generally indeclinable in form, but its singular forms triggered mutations. But in the plural, it rather obviously inflected like a feminine ā-stem with an etymologically superfluous -g- in the stem.

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative líL, líN líL lígaH
Vocative líL líL lígaH
Accusative líN líL lígaH
Genitive líH líL lígN
Dative líL lígaib lígaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms
  • lígach (“beautiful, lustrous”)

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: lí

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*liwo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242

Further reading

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 理.

Pronunciation

Noun

lí

  1. common sense
    hợp lí ― sensible
    có lí ― sound
    vô lí ― nonsensical
  2. sound and fair reasoning
    có lí có tình ― just; fair and square
  3. (colloquial, education) Clipping of vật lí (“physics”).

See also
Derived terms
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