2013 August 30, Kat Kinsman, “Something borrowed: Wedding traditions from around the world”, inCNN[1]:
Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding theleis around the couple’s hands to bind them together.
“lei”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved1 July 2023
[…] videro il drappo, et in quello la testa, non ancor sì consumata, che essi alla capellatura crespa non conoscesserolei esser quella di Lorenzo.
[…] they saw the cloth and the head wrapped inside it, which was not yet sufficiently decomposed that they could not help but identify it, from the curly hair, as being Lorenzo’s.
[…] Filomena in ciò che dell’amistà dice, racconta il vero, e con ragione nel fine delle sue parole si dolselei oggi così poco da’ mortali esser gradita.
[…] Philomena is in the right as to what she has said upon friendship; and it was with reason she complained, last of all, of its being in such little esteem with mankind […]
Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
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Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
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Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with Frenchvous).
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Traditional grammars still indicate the formsegli (animate),ello /ella (animate),esso /essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliqueslui,lei,loro.
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Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo,la,li,le, orne).
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Used after verbs.
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Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dativeloro /Loro), others enclitically (-mi,-ti, etc.).
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Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come,quanto, etc.); also used witha to create alternative emphatic dative forms.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
lei (masculine and femininelei,neuterleitt,definite singular and pluralleie,comparativeleiare,indefinite superlativeleiast,definite superlativeleiaste)