lue

• lew

Uncertain.^[1]

lue (third-person singular simple present lues, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)

1. (mining, dialect, transitive) To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
   • 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 116:

     Cardiganshire... That which is thus Buddled they lue with a thick hair sieve close wrought in a tub of water.

   • 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 122:

     Cornwall... The fine [sc. tin] is lewed in a fine sierce.

• -ule, Elu, LEU, leu, ule

From Old Danish lughæ, Old Norse logi, from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”). Compare German Lohe, Swedish låga, Old English līeġ, English low (“flame”).

lue c (singular definite luen, plural indefinite luer)

1. flame
2. tuque, (a knit cap)

• (flame): flamme c
• (knit cap): tophue c, strikkehue c

lue (imperative lu, infinitive at lue, present tense luer, past tense luede, perfect tense har luet)

1. flame

• IPA^(key): /ˈlueˣ/, [ˈlue̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ue
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧e

lue

1. present active indicative connegative of lukea

   (Minä) en/ (Sinä) et/ Hän ei/ (Me) emme/ (Te) ette/ He eivät lue.

   I/You/We/You/They don't / She/He doesn't read.

2. second-person singular present imperative of lukea

   Lue!

   Read!

3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of lukea

   Älä lue!

   Don't read!

• leu

• IPA^(key): /ly/

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lue f sg

1. feminine singular of lu

• élu, leu

From Latin luēs (“plague, pestilence”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.e/
• Rhymes: -ue
• Hyphenation: lù‧e

lue f (invariable)

1. (medicine) Synonym of sifilide (“syphilis”)
2. (figurative, literary) plague, misfortune
3. (poetic) an evil person
   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso‎^[1], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto VII, page 25:

     La ſopraueſta di color di ſabbia
     Su l'arme hauea la maledetta lue

     The damned villain had a sand-colored overgarment over his arms

lue

1. ablative singular of luēs

lue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of luō

lue

1. Nonstandard spelling of lüè.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

lue f or m (definite singular lua or luen, indefinite plural luer, definite plural luene)

1. beanie

• “lue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.