different between linge vs lidge

English

Etymology

From Middle English lengen (“to linger”), from Old English lengan (“to make long, lengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *langijan? (“to make long”). Cognate with Scots ling (“to lengthen, prolong, delay; tarry, continue”). More at linger.

Verb

linge (third-person singular simple present linges, present participle linging, simple past and past participle linged)

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To work hard.

Related terms

• lingy

Anagrams

• Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Ingle, Nigel, ingle

French

Etymology

From a substantivation of Old French linge, from Latin l?neus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Noun

linge m (plural linges)

1. linen
2. cloth
3. laundry
4. (Switzerland) towel
5. (Quebec, invariable) clothing

Derived terms

• blanc comme un linge
• sèche-linge (“tumble drier”)
• corde à linge (“clothesline”)
• laver son linge sale en public
• linge de corps
• lingerie (“linen room, lingerie”)

Related terms

• ligne

Further reading

• “linge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ligne, ligné

Irish

Verb

linge

1. present subjunctive analytic of ling

Latin

Verb

linge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ling?

Occitan

Noun

linge m (plural linges)

1. laundry

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lingere, present active infinitive of ling?, from Proto-Indo-European *ley??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lind?e]

Verb

a linge (third-person singular present linge, past participle lins) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to lick

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ling?ri
• ling?u
• lingu?i
• lingere
• prelinge

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

lidge (plural lidges)

1. Obsolete form of ledge.

Anagrams

• gelid, glide, liged

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English lodge.

Verb

lidge (simple past lidg'd)

1. to lie, lay, lodge

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN