lithe

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Engleski[uredi]

Izgovor[uredi]

  • MFA(ključ): /laɪð/
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  • Rime: -aɪð

Etimologija 1[uredi]

From

lithen, from

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

*līþaną (to go, leave, suffer), from

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

Glagol[uredi]

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  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.

Etimologija 2[uredi]

From

lithe, from

līþe (gentle, mild), from

*linþaz, from

*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 Latinski lenis (soft) and/or Latinski lentus (supple) as possible cognates.

Pridev[uredi]

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.
    Sinonims: pliant, flexible, limber
  4. Adaptable.
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Etimologija 3[uredi]

From

lithen, from

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

*linþijaną (to soften), from

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

Glagol[uredi]

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.

Etimologija 4[uredi]

From

lithen, from

hlýða (to listen), from

*hliuþijaną (to listen), from

*ḱlewe- (to hear). Cognate with Danski lytte (to listen). Related to Old English hlēoþor (noise, sound, voice, song, hearing), Old English hlūd (loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous). More at loud.

Verb[uredi]

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

Etimologija 5[uredi]

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of lewth.

Noun[uredi]

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.

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Etymology 1[uredi]

From from Old English lēoht (light, daylight; power of vision; luminary; world), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą (light), from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (light).

Noun[uredi]

lithe (plural lithes)

  1. Alternative form of light

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Etymology 2[uredi]

From Old English liþ (limb, member, joint, point).

Noun[uredi]

lithe (plural lithes)

  1. Alternative form of lyth

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