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{
"antonyms": [
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"lower part\"”",
"word": "augša"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"down\"”",
"word": "augšā"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"downward\"”",
"word": "uz augšu"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"downward\"”",
"word": "augšup"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"downward\"”",
"tags": [
"poetic"
],
"word": "sauļup"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ieleja"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lejā"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lejtece"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lejup"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "leija"
},
"expansion": "leija",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "bat-pro",
"3": "*ley-ya-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Baltic *ley-ya-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-bsl-pro",
"2": "*ley-ā"
},
"expansion": "*ley-ā",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*l̥-ey"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *l̥-ey",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*el-"
},
"expansion": "*el-",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*Heh₃l-",
"t": "to bend, to incline"
},
"expansion": "*Heh₃l- (“to bend, to incline”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "elkonis",
"t": "elbow"
},
"expansion": "elkonis (“elbow”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰",
"t": "lower, smaller"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰 (undarleija, “lower, smaller”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "λειμών",
"t": "humid, grassy place, humid meadow"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek λειμών (leimṓn, “humid, grassy place, humid meadow”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From earlier (19th-century) leija, from Proto-Baltic *ley-ya-, from *ley-ā, from Proto-Indo-European *l̥-ey, from the zero grade of *el-, *Heh₃l- (“to bend, to incline”) (whence also elkonis (“elbow”), q.v.) with a suffix -ey. The meaning probably evolved as follows: “bent inward” > “inwardly bent earth”, “valley” > “lower area.” Cognates include Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰 (undarleija, “lower, smaller”), Ancient Greek λειμών (leimṓn, “humid, grassy place, humid meadow”) (lower places are often humid).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "declension-4",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "lv-decl-noun",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "4th declension",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "leja",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leju",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leju",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lejai",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leju",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lejā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leja",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "leja f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "4th"
},
"expansion": "leja f (4th declension)",
"name": "lv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lej",
"2": "a",
"3": "4th"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lej",
"2": "a",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"drop-v": "",
"keep-s": "",
"x": "0"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-4"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "leja",
"10": "lejām",
"11": "lejā",
"12": "lejās",
"13": "leja",
"14": "lejas",
"16": "",
"2": "lejas",
"3": "leju",
"4": "lejas",
"5": "lejas",
"6": "leju",
"7": "lejai",
"8": "lejām",
"9": "leju",
"type": "4th declension",
"x": "0"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-table"
}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "54 1 1 28 10 3 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 4 6 24 19 5 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "a motorcycle ran by in the low area along the house",
"text": "pa leju mājai garām šaujas motociklets",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Lība palika stāvam un ostīja gaisu: kaut kur no lejas uzvēdīja svešāada smarša ― Lība remained standing and sniffed the air: somewhere from below a strange smell was spreading",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"low area, low place, below (place located below, with respect to something else)"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-Skhra8ii",
"links": [
[
"low",
"low"
],
[
"area",
"area"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"below",
"below"
],
[
"place",
"place#English"
],
[
"locate",
"locate#English"
],
[
"below",
"below#English"
],
[
"with respect to",
"with respect to#English"
],
[
"something",
"something#English"
],
[
"else",
"else#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "52 0 0 22 17 5 5",
"sense": "19th-century form",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "leija"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the lower (i.e., first) floor",
"text": "lejas stāvs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "here was the lower village church with a green tin roof",
"text": "te bija lejas aula baznīca ar zaļo skārda jumtu",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the small groups of studnets silently dispersed in the dark lower corridor",
"text": "tumšajā lejas gaitenī klusēdami izklīst skolēnu pulciņi",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"lower side, lower part, bottom (of something)"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-Fao3uI~d",
"links": [
[
"genitive",
"genitive"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"adjectivally",
"adjective"
],
[
"lower",
"lower"
],
[
"side",
"side"
],
[
"part",
"part"
],
[
"bottom",
"bottom"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in genitive, used adjectivally) lower side, lower part, bottom (of something)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in genitive",
"used adjectivally"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 84 16 0 0 0 0",
"sense": "of \"lower part\"",
"word": "apakša"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "down in the yard the children were playing",
"text": "lejā pagalmā spēlējās bērni",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I went out on the balcony; deep down under me cars and trolleys slid by",
"text": "izgāju pat uz balkona; dzīli lejā zem manis slīdēja automašīnas un trolejbusi",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "un tad tepat lejā pie Varžupīte tie karkli ― and then right here (they are), down by the Varžupīte (river), these willows",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "right under the niche there were two little tables; in the niche it was possible to hear every word which they said down there",
"text": "tieši zem nišas bija divi galdiņi; nišā varēja dzirdēt katru vārdu, ko tie tur lejā runāja",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"down, below, at the bottom, in a lower area (of some place)"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-~L2MvfdU",
"links": [
[
"locative",
"locative"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"adverbially",
"adverbially"
],
[
"down",
"down"
],
[
"below",
"below"
],
[
"bottom",
"bottom"
],
[
"lower",
"lower"
],
[
"area",
"area"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in locative, used adverbially) down, below, at the bottom, in a lower area (of some place)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in locative"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "36 0 49 0 0 0 16",
"sense": "of \"below\", \"down\"",
"word": "lejā"
}
],
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Geography",
"orig": "lv:Geography",
"parents": [
"Earth sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "26 2 5 35 4 9 18",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Landforms",
"orig": "lv:Landforms",
"parents": [
"Earth",
"Places",
"Nature",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "river, creek valley",
"text": "upes, strauta leja",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "deep valley",
"text": "dziļa leja",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "a valley overgrown with bushes",
"text": "krūmiem aizaugusi leja",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "valley slope",
"text": "lejas nogāze",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "in a cool valley between two mountains / a holy, lonely monastery kept itself",
"text": "starp diviem kalniem vēsā lejā / svēts, vientuļš klosteris glabājās",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"valley"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-Yn~T0FpJ",
"links": [
[
"geography",
"geography"
],
[
"valley",
"valley"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(geography) valley"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 94 6 0 0",
"sense": "of \"valley\"",
"word": "ieleja"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "in the humid pasture depression there were (lit. came) alder and willow bushes",
"text": "miklajā ganību lejā nāca melnakšņu un kārklu krūmi",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"depression in an area or terrain"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-7TTTdIaf",
"links": [
[
"depression",
"depression"
],
[
"area",
"area"
],
[
"terrain",
"terrain"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "from the river mouth came a steamboat",
"text": "no lejas brauc tvaikonis",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the stream took the boat downstream, to(ward) the estuary",
"text": "straume laivu nesa uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the further we go downstream, the more the stream separated us",
"text": "jo tālāk ejam mēs uz leju, jo vairāk straume izšķir mūs",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"mouth, estuary"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-d3IaPow0",
"links": [
[
"uz",
"uz#Latvian"
],
[
"no",
"no#Latvian"
],
[
"mouth",
"mouth"
],
[
"estuary",
"estuary"
]
],
"qualifier": "no",
"raw_glosses": [
"(of rivers; usually with uz, no) mouth, estuary"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of rivers",
"with uz"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "to look down",
"text": "skatīties uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the path leads down",
"text": "ceļš ved uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Ģirts gāja pa kāpnēm uz leju ― Ģirts walked down the stairs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the heavy cup weighs down",
"text": "svaru kauss sveras uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Pastor Siling's health, they say, is going down",
"text": "Mācītājam Silingam ar veselību ejot uz leju",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"down, downward, toward the earth (also metaphorically)"
],
"id": "en-leja-lv-noun-xGRCGj7L",
"links": [
[
"uz",
"uz#Latvian"
],
[
"down",
"down"
],
[
"downward",
"downward"
],
[
"toward",
"toward"
],
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"metaphorical",
"metaphorical#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with uz) down, downward, toward the earth (also metaphorically)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with uz"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "10 0 25 0 0 0 65",
"sense": "of \"downward\"",
"word": "uz leju"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 0 25 0 0 0 65",
"sense": "of \"downward\"",
"word": "lejup"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 0 25 0 0 0 65",
"sense": "of \"downward\"",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "zemup"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lejtece"
}
],
"word": "leja"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"lower part\"”",
"word": "augša"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"down\"”",
"word": "augšā"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"downward\"”",
"word": "uz augšu"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"downward\"”",
"word": "augšup"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"downward\"”",
"tags": [
"poetic"
],
"word": "sauļup"
}
],
"categories": [
"Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
"Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"Latvian feminine nouns",
"Latvian fourth declension nouns",
"Latvian lemmas",
"Latvian nouns",
"Latvian terms derived from Proto-Baltic",
"Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latvian terms with audio links",
"lv:Landforms"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "ieleja"
},
{
"word": "lejā"
},
{
"word": "lejtece"
},
{
"word": "lejup"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "leija"
},
"expansion": "leija",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "bat-pro",
"3": "*ley-ya-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Baltic *ley-ya-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-bsl-pro",
"2": "*ley-ā"
},
"expansion": "*ley-ā",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*l̥-ey"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *l̥-ey",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*el-"
},
"expansion": "*el-",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*Heh₃l-",
"t": "to bend, to incline"
},
"expansion": "*Heh₃l- (“to bend, to incline”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "elkonis",
"t": "elbow"
},
"expansion": "elkonis (“elbow”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰",
"t": "lower, smaller"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰 (undarleija, “lower, smaller”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "λειμών",
"t": "humid, grassy place, humid meadow"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek λειμών (leimṓn, “humid, grassy place, humid meadow”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From earlier (19th-century) leija, from Proto-Baltic *ley-ya-, from *ley-ā, from Proto-Indo-European *l̥-ey, from the zero grade of *el-, *Heh₃l- (“to bend, to incline”) (whence also elkonis (“elbow”), q.v.) with a suffix -ey. The meaning probably evolved as follows: “bent inward” > “inwardly bent earth”, “valley” > “lower area.” Cognates include Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌾𐌰 (undarleija, “lower, smaller”), Ancient Greek λειμών (leimṓn, “humid, grassy place, humid meadow”) (lower places are often humid).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "declension-4",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "lv-decl-noun",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "4th declension",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "leja",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leju",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leju",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lejai",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leju",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lejā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lejās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leja",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "lejas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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"2": "noun",
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"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "leja f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "4th"
},
"expansion": "leja f (4th declension)",
"name": "lv-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"2": "a",
"3": "4th"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "a",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"drop-v": "",
"keep-s": "",
"x": "0"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-4"
},
{
"args": {
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"10": "lejām",
"11": "lejā",
"12": "lejās",
"13": "leja",
"14": "lejas",
"16": "",
"2": "lejas",
"3": "leju",
"4": "lejas",
"5": "lejas",
"6": "leju",
"7": "lejai",
"8": "lejām",
"9": "leju",
"type": "4th declension",
"x": "0"
},
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}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "a motorcycle ran by in the low area along the house",
"text": "pa leju mājai garām šaujas motociklets",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Lība palika stāvam un ostīja gaisu: kaut kur no lejas uzvēdīja svešāada smarša ― Lība remained standing and sniffed the air: somewhere from below a strange smell was spreading",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"low area, low place, below (place located below, with respect to something else)"
],
"links": [
[
"low",
"low"
],
[
"area",
"area"
],
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"below",
"below"
],
[
"place",
"place#English"
],
[
"locate",
"locate#English"
],
[
"below",
"below#English"
],
[
"with respect to",
"with respect to#English"
],
[
"something",
"something#English"
],
[
"else",
"else#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the lower (i.e., first) floor",
"text": "lejas stāvs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "here was the lower village church with a green tin roof",
"text": "te bija lejas aula baznīca ar zaļo skārda jumtu",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the small groups of studnets silently dispersed in the dark lower corridor",
"text": "tumšajā lejas gaitenī klusēdami izklīst skolēnu pulciņi",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"lower side, lower part, bottom (of something)"
],
"links": [
[
"genitive",
"genitive"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"adjectivally",
"adjective"
],
[
"lower",
"lower"
],
[
"side",
"side"
],
[
"part",
"part"
],
[
"bottom",
"bottom"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in genitive, used adjectivally) lower side, lower part, bottom (of something)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in genitive",
"used adjectivally"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "down in the yard the children were playing",
"text": "lejā pagalmā spēlējās bērni",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I went out on the balcony; deep down under me cars and trolleys slid by",
"text": "izgāju pat uz balkona; dzīli lejā zem manis slīdēja automašīnas un trolejbusi",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "un tad tepat lejā pie Varžupīte tie karkli ― and then right here (they are), down by the Varžupīte (river), these willows",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "right under the niche there were two little tables; in the niche it was possible to hear every word which they said down there",
"text": "tieši zem nišas bija divi galdiņi; nišā varēja dzirdēt katru vārdu, ko tie tur lejā runāja",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
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],
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[
"locative",
"locative"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"adverbially",
"adverbially"
],
[
"down",
"down"
],
[
"below",
"below"
],
[
"bottom",
"bottom"
],
[
"lower",
"lower"
],
[
"area",
"area"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in locative, used adverbially) down, below, at the bottom, in a lower area (of some place)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in locative"
],
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples",
"lv:Geography"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "river, creek valley",
"text": "upes, strauta leja",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "deep valley",
"text": "dziļa leja",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "a valley overgrown with bushes",
"text": "krūmiem aizaugusi leja",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "valley slope",
"text": "lejas nogāze",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "in a cool valley between two mountains / a holy, lonely monastery kept itself",
"text": "starp diviem kalniem vēsā lejā / svēts, vientuļš klosteris glabājās",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"valley"
],
"links": [
[
"geography",
"geography"
],
[
"valley",
"valley"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(geography) valley"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "in the humid pasture depression there were (lit. came) alder and willow bushes",
"text": "miklajā ganību lejā nāca melnakšņu un kārklu krūmi",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"depression in an area or terrain"
],
"links": [
[
"depression",
"depression"
],
[
"area",
"area"
],
[
"terrain",
"terrain"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "from the river mouth came a steamboat",
"text": "no lejas brauc tvaikonis",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the stream took the boat downstream, to(ward) the estuary",
"text": "straume laivu nesa uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the further we go downstream, the more the stream separated us",
"text": "jo tālāk ejam mēs uz leju, jo vairāk straume izšķir mūs",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"mouth, estuary"
],
"links": [
[
"uz",
"uz#Latvian"
],
[
"no",
"no#Latvian"
],
[
"mouth",
"mouth"
],
[
"estuary",
"estuary"
]
],
"qualifier": "no",
"raw_glosses": [
"(of rivers; usually with uz, no) mouth, estuary"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of rivers",
"with uz"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "to look down",
"text": "skatīties uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the path leads down",
"text": "ceļš ved uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Ģirts gāja pa kāpnēm uz leju ― Ģirts walked down the stairs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "the heavy cup weighs down",
"text": "svaru kauss sveras uz leju",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Pastor Siling's health, they say, is going down",
"text": "Mācītājam Silingam ar veselību ejot uz leju",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"down, downward, toward the earth (also metaphorically)"
],
"links": [
[
"uz",
"uz#Latvian"
],
[
"down",
"down"
],
[
"downward",
"downward"
],
[
"toward",
"toward"
],
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"metaphorical",
"metaphorical#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with uz) down, downward, toward the earth (also metaphorically)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with uz"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "of \"below\", \"down\"",
"word": "lejā"
},
{
"sense": "of \"lower part\"",
"word": "apakša"
},
{
"sense": "of \"valley\"",
"word": "ieleja"
},
{
"word": "lejtece"
},
{
"sense": "of \"downward\"",
"word": "uz leju"
},
{
"sense": "of \"downward\"",
"word": "lejup"
},
{
"sense": "of \"downward\"",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "zemup"
},
{
"sense": "19th-century form",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "leija"
}
],
"word": "leja"
}
{
"called_from": "linkages/371",
"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (of \"estuary\"): lejtece desc=of \"estuary\" rest=lejtece cls=romanization cls2=romanization e1=False e2=True",
"path": [
"leja"
],
"section": "Latvian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "leja",
"trace": ""
}
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