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Lei
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/laˑɪ̯/
noun
Plural:
Leien
n
dat Lei
[1]
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Emsland:
Hermann Schönhoff:
Emsländische Grammatik.
Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1908, page 119
PDF, 7.4 MB
Waldeck:
Karl Bauer:
Waldeckisches Wörterbuch nebst Dialektproben.
1902, Wörterliste, page 67
PDF, 25.4 MB
Low Saxon:
Schever
English:
slate
Dutch:
lei
German:
Schiefer
Examples:
Lei
kann
to’n Bispeel
to
’t
Decken
von
Däcker
nahmen
warrn
.
Gretarsson, CC BY-SA 3.0
[2]
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school
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Pott:
Heinrich Beisenherz:
Vokalismus der Mundart des nordöstlichen Landkreises Dortmund.
Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1907, page 87
PDF, 2.3 MB
Emsland:
Wortliste des Heimatarchivs Lengerich.
Oldenburg:
Artur vor Mohr:
Vocalstand des oldenburgischen Niederdeutsch.
Soltau, Norden 1904, page 23
PDF, 1.6 MB
Low Saxon:
Tafel
ut
Schever
English:
slate
Dutch:
lei
German:
Schiefertafel
Examples:
Fröher
hebbt
se
in
de
School
op
Leien
schreven
.
Peng, CC-BY-SA-3.0
Rhyming words
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