Q. le pron. “you (plural)” (Category: Pronoun)

Q. le, pron. “you (plural)” (Category: Pronoun)

References ✧ Minor-Doc/1955-CT; PE22/162; PE23/69; VT49/51

Glosses

• “2nd-person” ✧ PE23/69
• “Pl[ural] 2” ✧ VT49/51 (lé)
• “you” ✧ PE22/162

Variations

• le ✧ PE22/162; PE23/69
• lé ✧ VT49/51

Inflections

lenna

allative

✧ Minor-Doc/1955-CT

Element In

• ᴺQ. !lenya “yours (plural)”
• Q. mélima yondion, lenna antanyes mélio cenwa “*dear [one] of sons I give it to be read with love” ✧ Minor-Doc/1955-CT
• Q. vá meninyë ó le “I won’t come with you” ✧ PE22/162

Derivations

• < ✶de “you (pl.)” ✧ PE23/69; VT49/51

Phonetic Developments

✶de > le	[de] > [le]	✧ PE23/69
✶de > lé	[dē] > [lē] > [le]	✧ VT49/51

ᴹQ. le¹ pron. “you” (Category: Pronoun)

References ✧ PE22/106, 118-120, 123-124, 127; PE23/75, 77, 79-80, 88-90, 93, 99, 103-104

Glosses

• “2nd person [with] deference” ✧ PE23/90
• “second person polite” ✧ PE23/89 (le)
• “ye, you (polite)” ✧ PE23/93
• “you” ✧ PE22/118; PE22/119; PE22/120; PE22/124; PE22/124 (lé); PE22/127; PE23/99; PE23/99; PE23/103; PE23/104; PE23/104
• “you (polite)” ✧ PE23/88

Variations

• le ✧ PE22/106; PE22/118; PE22/119; PE22/120; PE22/124; PE22/127; PE23/88; PE23/90; PE23/93; PE23/99; PE23/99; PE23/103; PE23/104; PE23/104; PE23/89 (le)
• lé ✧ PE22/124

Changes

• léva >> léna ✧ PE23/79
• lélet >> lēt ✧ PE23/80

Inflections

-l	accusative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/75
-l	accusative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/77
-le	accusative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/75
-le	accusative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/77
lé	accusative	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
let	accusative dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
-le(n)	accusative plural	“pl. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/77
léna	adjectival	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
léva	adjectival	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
letwa	adjectival dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
a)le	dative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/77
lén	dative	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
lé{n}	dative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/77
·le	dative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/75; PE23/75
lent	dative dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
l’	elided	“you”	✧ PE23/99
leo	genitive	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
léto	genitive dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
lémen	instrumental	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
le-sse	locative	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
le-sset	locative dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
le·	nominative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/75
le·	nominative	“sg. 2 b.”	✧ PE23/77
lé	nominative	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
léle	nominative	“sg. 2b”	✧ PE23/79
lélet	nominative dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
lēt	nominative dual	“dual 2b”	✧ PE23/80
lie	stative		✧ PE22/123
liet	stative dual		✧ PE22/123
lier	stative plural		✧ PE22/123
léva	stative-future		✧ PE22/123
léne	stative-past		✧ PE22/123
lénet	stative-past dual		✧ PE22/123
léner	stative-past plural		✧ PE22/123

Element In

• ᴹQ. á le·láte “{now} don’t you do it!” ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. á le·tule ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. á le·tulir ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. ási le·kare “come now, do it (please)” ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. e·kestane ma leqente tana “he asked if you (had) said that” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. ha le·nye karite “making it for me (would be kind) of you” ✧ PE22/119
• ᴹQ. ha mólome le·nakin(ye) “it is hard work for you to kill me” ✧ PE22/120
• ᴹQ. leláne tule “you did not come” ✧ PE22/127
• ᴹQ. le·mere imma mastō “do you want some bread, any quantity of bread and if so what” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. le·mere kina masta “do you want a little bread? (when little is precise and not partitive)” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. le·mere umma masto? “Do you want some/any bread?” ✧ PE23/99
• ᴹQ. le·merne i ni·karnéte “you wished that I had made (lit. made) it” ✧ PE22/118
• ᴹQ. le·qente mana? “what did you say?” ✧ PE23/99; PE23/103
• ᴹQ. le tule ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. le tulir ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. le-tuluva? “will you come, please?” ✧ PE22/106
• ᴹQ. má le·qente? sa ela kenyuvas “[what did you say?] that he will not see it” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. ma le·qente tana “did you say that?” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. mallo le, aiano? “whence (come) you, stranger?” ✧ PE22/124
• ᴹQ. mana le·qente “what did you say?” ✧ PE23/103
• ᴹQ. manna lé sinar? “whither (are) you (going) this morning?” ✧ PE22/124
• ᴹQ. masse le enta/enar/elloa? “where (will) you be then (fut.)/tomorrow/next year?” ✧ PE22/124
• ᴹQ. me·le·lávanelti kare “we were not going to make them for you” ✧ PE22/127
• ᴹQ. sí tina·mbar (i l’eqétie) “now this house (of yours) that you have mentioned” ✧ PE23/99

Derivations

• < ᴹ✶le “you (polite)” ✧ PE23/74

ᴱQ. le¹ pron. “you (plural)” (Category: Pronoun)

References ✧ PE14/52-53, 59, 85

Glosses

• “Pl. 2” ✧ PE14/52; PE14/85

Variations

• le- ✧ PE14/52; PE14/59; PE14/85

Inflections

le	accusative	✧ PE14/53
ler	dative	✧ PE14/53
len	genitive	✧ PE14/53

Element In

• ᴱQ. lea- “*your; 2nd pl. possessive” ✧ PE14/54 (lea·)
• ᴱQ. lelko “you (emphatic plural familiar)” ✧ PE14/53
• ᴱQ. lelya “*your (emphatic possessive plural)” ✧ PE14/54
• ᴱQ. le·tul ✧ PE14/59
• ᴱQ. le·tulil (en) ✧ PE14/59