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Етимологија 1

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Средњи Енглески

lithen, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески

līþan (“to go, travel, sail, be bereft of”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Пра-Германски

*līþaną (“to go, leave, suffer”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European

*leyt- (“to go, depart, die”). Cognate with North Frisian lyen, lije (“to suffer”), Холандски lijden (“to suffer, dree, abide”), Немачки leiden (“to suffer, brook, permit”). See also lode, lead.

Глагол

lithe (third-person singular simple present lithes, present participle lithing, simple past lithed or lode, past participle lithed or lidden)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.

Етимологија 2

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Средњи Енглески

lithe, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески

līþe (“gentle, mild”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Пра-Германски

*linþaz, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European

*lentos. Akin to Saterland Frisian lied (“thin, skinny, gaunt”), Danish and German lind (“mild”), Icelandic linur (“soft to the touch”). Not attested in Gothic. Some sources also list Латински lenis (“soft”) and/or Латински lentus (“supple”) as possible cognates.

Придев

lithe (comparative lither, superlative lithest)

1. (obsolete) Mild; calm.

   lithe weather

2. slim but not skinny

   lithe body

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

3. Capable of being easily bent

   the elephant’s lithe proboscis.

   Синоними: pliant, flexible, limber

   • 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125

     … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …

4. Adaptable.

Synonyms

• lithesome
• lissome
• swack

Derived terms

• litheness

Related terms

• -inda
• lind
• linden
• Linda

Преводи

mild, calm

• Dutch: kalm (nl), rustig (nl)
• Portuguese: calmo (pt), tranquilo (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: lugn (sv)

slim

• Dutch: slank (nl)
• Finnish: solakka (fi)
• French: svelte (fr), élancé (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: scaoilte
• Latvian: slaids
• Swedish: smärt (sv)

flexible

• Dutch: soepel (nl)
• Finnish: notkea (fi), taipuisa (fi)
• French: souple (fr) m or f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: scaoilte, ligthe
• Maori: moruki
• Swedish: smidig (sv), böjlig (sv)

Етимологија 3

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Средњи Енглески

lithen, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески

līþian, līþiġian (“to soften, calm, mitigate, assuage, appease, be mild”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Пра-Германски

*linþijaną (“to soften”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European

*lento- (“bendsome, resilient”). Cognate with Немачки lindern (“to alleviate, ease, relieve”).

Глагол

lithe

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
   • Hamilton (1552)

     The holy spirit, by his grace, lithes and turns out heart to God.

   • T. Adams (1614)

     England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.

   • Rogers Naamen (1642)

     Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.

Етимологија 4

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Средњи Енглески

lithen, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse

hlýða (“to listen”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Пра-Германски

*hliuþijaną (“to listen”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European

*ḱlewe- (“to hear”). Cognate with Дански lytte (“to listen”). Related to Стари Енглески hlēoþor (“noise, sound, voice, song, hearing”), Стари Енглески hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”). More at loud.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen.
2. (transitive) To listen to.

Етимологија 5

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of lewth.

Noun

lithe (plural lithes)

1. (Scotland) Shelter.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:

     So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

Anagrams

• Leith, Theil, Thiel, lieth

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From from Стари Енглески lēoht (“light, daylight; power of vision; luminary; world”), from Пра-Германски *leuhtą (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (“light”).

Noun

lithe (plural lithes)

1. Alternative form of light

References

• “light (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

Etymology 2

From Стари Енглески liþ (“limb, member, joint, point”).

Noun

lithe (plural lithes)

1. Alternative form of lyth

References

• “lith (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.