different between blite vs blive

English

Etymology

From Latin blitum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?t, IPA^(key): /bla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophone: blight

Noun

blite (plural blites)

1. The plant Amaranthus blitum, purple amaranth.
2. Any of various plants in the genus Chenopodium.
3. Any of various plants in the genus Atriplex.

References

• blite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Amaranthus blitum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chenopodium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Atriplex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Irish

Verb

blite

1. past participle of bligh (“milk”, verb)

Noun

blite m sg

1. genitive singular of bleán

Mutation

Further reading

• "blite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

English

Verb

blive (third-person singular simple present blives, present participle bliving, simple past blove, past participle bliven)

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of belive ("to remain").

Adverb

blive (comparative more blive, superlative most blive)

1. (obsolete) quickly; forthwith
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto III, stanza XVIII.

     "Perdy, sir knight,' saide then th' enchaunter blive […]

Anagrams

• Bevil

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German bliven, from Old Saxon bil??an, from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?, cognate with German bleiben (“to remain”). In the sense “to become", it has replaced older vorde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bli??/, [?b?li?i], (formal) IPA^(key): /bli?v?/, [?b?li???], [?b?li??]

Verb

blive (past tense blev, past participle blevet, c bleven, plural and definite singular blevne)

1. (copulative) to become (go from one state into another, with a predicative or the preposition til (“to”); the latter is preferred with nouns if a change is implied)

2. (auxiliary) to be (used with the past participle to form the passive voice)

3. to amount (to total or evaluate)

4. (intransitive) remain (to continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity)

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bli

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian blífa, from Middle Low German bliven, from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?.

Verb

blive (present tense bliver, past tense blev or bleiv, past participle blitt, present participle blivende, imperative bliv)

1. to drown

   Synonym: drukne

References

• “blive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bliva (a infinitive)

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian blífa, from Middle Low German bliven, from ultimately Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?.

Verb

blive (present tense bliv, past tense bleiv, supine blive, past participle bliven, present participle blivande, imperative bliv)

1. (intransitive) to drown

   Synonym: drukne

   han gjekk gjennom isen og bleiv

References

• “blive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.