different between slite vs slited

English

Alternative forms

• sleight, slight
• slyte (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English sliten, from Old English sl?tan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *sl?tan, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”).

Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slote or slited, past participle slit or slitten or slited)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).

Noun

slite (uncountable)

1. (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

Anagrams

• IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, tiles

Irish

Alternative forms

• slighte (obsolete)

Noun

slite f

1. plural of slí

Mutation

Further reading

• "slite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “slite” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “slite” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse slíta

Verb

slite (imperative slit, present tense sliter, passive slites, simple past slet or sleit, past participle slitt, present participle slitende)

1. to wear (ut / out)
2. to struggle (med / with)

Derived terms

• slitesterk
• nedslitt
• utslitt

References

• “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

slite (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)

1. Alternative form of slita

Derived terms

• slitesterk

Adjective

slite

1. neuter singular of sliten

English

Verb

slited

1. simple past tense and past participle of slite

Anagrams

• Steidl, delist, desilt, idlest, lestid, listed, silted, stiled, telsid, tildes