-les

Inherited from Old English -lēas (“-less”) (akin to lēas (“devoid of, loose from, false”)), from Proto-West Germanic *-laus, from Proto-Germanic *-lausaz, from *lausaz (“loose”).

• -las, -lasse, -læs, -leas, -lease, -leæs, -lees, -lese, -lesse, -lez, -lies, -liese, -lis, -lise, -lyas, -lyese

• IPA^(key): /-lɛ̝ːs/, /-lɛs/

-les

1. Lacking (something); without (something).

• -les and its variants are affixed to nouns in order to form adjectives denoting absence of that noun.

• English: -less
• Middle Scots: -les
  • Scots: -less

• “-lē̆s, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.

-les

1. alternative form of -els

• IPA^(key): /les/

-les

1. genitive singular of -el