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ithe

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a?ð/
  • Rhymes: -a?ð

Etymology 1

From Middle English ythe, ithe, uthe, from Old English (wave, billow, flood, sea, liquid, water), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *unþiz, *unþ? (wave), from Proto-Indo-European *unt-, *und- (wave). Cognate with German Unde (flood, wave), Icelandic unnur (wave).

Noun

ithe (plural ithes)

  1. (archaic) A wave.
  2. (obsolete, in the plural) Waves; the sea.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ithen, related to Old Norse iðja (to be active, do, perform). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

ithe (third-person singular simple present ithes, present participle ithing, simple past and past participle ithed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To thrive; flourish; prosper.
Derived terms
  • ithand

Anagrams

  • Heit, Hite

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??h?/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /?i?h?/, /?i?.?/, /i?/
  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /i?/

Verb

ithe

  1. inflection of ith:
    1. present subjunctive analytic
    2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

Noun

ithe m (genitive singular ite)

  1. verbal noun of ith
  2. eating

Declension

(as verbal noun):

(as regular noun):

Mutation


Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ìð??/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with k?guny?, njag?, kiug?, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including g?kwa (pl. ikwa), ithang? (pl. mathang?), kiug?, k?boko, k?guny?, k?nya, k?roboto, k?r??mi, mbogo, m?cinga, m?gate, m?haka, m?rangi, m?r?thi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, ny?mba, th?, and so on.

Noun

ithe 1

  1. his or her father

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • g?tir? mwana ?ng?tema ag?temera ithe
  • ithe wa thaka ndar? mat?
  • mwana m?k?r? na ithe n? hamwe
  • mwana ndah?ragwo ithe ar? ho
  • mwana ndetagia ithe nyama
  • mwana wa rwendo ar?aga nyina na ithe
  • mwathwo n? nda a(a)k?ra/ar?g?(?)te mwathwo n? ithe
  • ?r? ithe ndaringagwo ya ngoro

See also

  • (my) baba; (thy) thoguo

References

  • “ithe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 192. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Middle English

Noun

ithe

  1. Alternative form of ythe

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • hithe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?i??e/

Noun

ithe f

  1. verbal noun of ithid
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102a15

Inflection

Mutation


Scottish Gaelic

Noun

ithe f

  1. (act of) eating

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lithe

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la?ð/
  • Rhymes: -a?ð

Etymology 1

From Middle English lithen, from Old English l?þan (to go, travel, sail, be bereft of), from Proto-Germanic *l?þan? (to go, leave, suffer), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (to go, depart, die). Cognate with North Frisian lyen, lije (to suffer), Dutch lijden (to suffer, dree, abide), German leiden (to suffer, brook, permit). See also lode, lead.

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lithe, from Old English l?þe (gentle, mild), from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(?), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lentos. Akin to Saterland Frisian lied (thin, skinny, gaunt), Danish and archaic German lind (mild). Not attested in Gothic. Some sources also list Latin lenis (soft) and/or Latin lentus (supple) as possible cognates.

Adjective

lithe (comparative lither, superlative lithest)

  1. (obsolete) Mild; calm.
    Synonyms: clement, gentle, mellow
  2. Slim but not skinny.
    Synonyms: lithesome, lissome, swack; see also Thesaurus:slender
    • 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; flexible.
    Synonyms: pliant, flexible, limber; see also Thesaurus:flexible
    • 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.
Derived terms
  • litheness
Related terms
  • -inda
  • lind
  • linden
  • Linda
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English lithen, from Old English l?þian, l?þi?ian (to soften, calm, mitigate, assuage, appease, be mild), from Proto-Germanic *linþijan? (to soften), from Proto-Indo-European *lento- (bendsome, resilient). Cognate with German lindern (to alleviate, ease, relieve).

Verb

lithe

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
    • a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
      England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
    • 1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure
      Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.

Etymology 4

From Middle English lithen, from Old Norse hlýða (to listen), from Proto-Germanic *hliuþijan? (to listen), from Proto-Indo-European *?lewe- (to hear). Cognate with Danish lytte (to listen). Related to Old English hl?oþor (noise, sound, voice, song, hearing), Old English hl?d (loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous). More at loud.

Alternative forms

  • lythe

Verb

lithe (third-person singular simple present lithes, present participle lithing, simple past and past participle lithed)

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

Etymology 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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

lithe (plural lithes)

  1. Alternative form of light

Etymology 2

Noun

lithe

  1. Alternative form of lyth

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