lithe
Engleski uredi
Izgovor uredi
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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- (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)
- (obsolete) Mild; calm.
- lithe weather
- 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.
- Capable of being easily bent
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- 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
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
- (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.
- Hamilton (1552)
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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- (intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen.
- (transitive) To listen to.
Etimologija 5 uredi
Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of lewth.
Noun uredi
lithe (plural lithes)
- (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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
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Middle English uredi
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)
- Alternative form of light
References uredi
- “light (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
Etymology 2 uredi
From Old English liþ (“limb, member, joint, point”).
Noun uredi
lithe (plural lithes)
- Alternative form of lyth
References uredi
- “lith (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.