lesan

• lèzan (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German lesen, from Old High German lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”). Cognate with German lesen, Dutch lezen, English lease (“to gather”), Icelandic lesa.

lesan

1. (Luserna) to read

• “lesan” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

lesan

1. to gather, to collect
2. to read

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: lēsen
  • Dutch: lezen
    • Afrikaans: lees
    • → Papiamentu: lesa
    • → Sranan Tongo: leisi
  • Limburgish: laeze, leuze

• “lesan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlezɑn/.

lesan

1. to gather, collect

• English: lease

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

lesan

1. to read, to read aloud, to examine, to collect

• Middle High German: lësen
  • Alemannic German: läse, lääse
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: lesan, lèzan

  • German: lesen
  • Luxembourgish: liesen
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: lese

  • Vilamovian: łaoza

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną. The sense ‘to read’, found throughout North and West Germanic except English, is a semantic loan from Latin legō.

lesan

1. to gather, collect
2. to read

• German Low German: lesen