lí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "li"

Hokkien
For pronunciation and definitions of lí – see 你 (“you; your”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 你).
For pronunciation and definitions of lí – see 李 (“plum; a surname”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 李).

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
  • audio(file)

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／㛤
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孷
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 廲
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 悡
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 摙／𫽁
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攡／摛
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 斃／毙
  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／牦
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漓
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漦
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灍／𫞝
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灕／漓
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 牥
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犁, 犂
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犛／牦
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狸
  31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琋
  32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓈／璃
  33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 睝
  34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秙
  35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穲
  36. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籬／篱
  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／𫄹
  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／藜
  48. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薶
  49. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藜
  50. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘺／蓠
  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／狸
  59. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邌
  60. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酈／郦
  61. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酶
  62. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醨
  63. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釁／衅
  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／霁
  71. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 騹／𬴆
  72. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 驪／骊
  73. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 髣
  74. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯬／𫚞
  75. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鱺／鲡
  76. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵹／𱊃
  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／𰖩
  83. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㓯
  84. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 浬

Matagalpa

Noun

lí

  1. water

References

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 理.

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

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 俚.

Noun

lí

  1. (music) a kind of folk song
    lí cây đa ― a lí song about the fig tree
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