Non-syllabic prepositions?

[Michal Vopalensky]

Hi all, 

in my language we use some one-letter, non-syllabic prepositions ("v", "k",
"z" etc.). Is it possible to declare it somehow in the LilyPond lyrics mode?
I.e. that LilyPond does not print these "words" to individual notes, but it
interprets it as one group together with the first syllable of the following
word? For example, writing

\addlyrics { v le -- se }

will result in adding of the three text groups to three successive notes. I
would like to make one
syllable from "v le", but keeping the space between "v" and "le" in the score.

Thank you,

Michal