-lei

• -ley (obsolete)
• -erlei (different segmentation)

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-lei

1. means sort, kind, type; added to numerals or some pronouns: indicates the specified number of types

• -hand

• beiderlei
• deinerlei
• dieserlei
• jederlei
• seinerlei
• solcherlei
• verschiedenerlei
• welcherlei
• waserlei

• -lei in Duden online
• -lei in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, 1891
• “-lei” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

-lei

1. Alternative form of -liche

• “-lī, suf.(1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.
• “-lī, suf.(2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.

• -ei

• IPA^(key): /lej/

-lei (pl)

1. variant of -a

the (definite article)

• This form of the definite article is used for feminine nouns in the genitive and dative cases which end in a stressed vowel or diphthong:

basmalei, from basma, fem.

cafelei, from cafea, fem.

• Monosyllables ending in vowels also take this suffix:

zilei, from zi, fem.