Lid
Alemannic German edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German lid (“limb, member”), from Proto-Germanic *liþuz (“joint, body part”).
Noun edit
Lid n
- (Uri, anatomy) The hindquarters of a slaughter animal.
References edit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 18.
Czech edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Lid m anim (feminine Lidová)
- a male surname
Declension edit
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German lit (“lid, cover”), from Old High German hlit, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid.
In the modern sense a shortening of Augenlid. Cognate with Dutch lid (“lid”), English lid.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Lid n (strong, genitive Lides or Lids, plural Lider)
Usage notes edit
- The commoner word is the compound Augenlid. The simplex is used chiefly when the context is already related to the eyes or the face.
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Saterland Frisian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Frisian lith, from Proto-West Germanic *liþu. Cognates include West Frisian lid and German Lied.
Noun edit
Lid n (plural Líede)
- limb
- joint
- generation
- 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:17:
- In t Geheel sunt dät deeruum fon Abraham bit David fjautien Líede, fon David bit tou ju Ferbonnenge ätter Babylon wai fjautien Líede un fon ju Ferbonnenge ätter Babylon wai bit tou Christus fjautien Líede.
- Thus, all in all, that's fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations from David to the exile to Babylon and from the exile to Babylon to Christ fourteen generations.
- link (in a chain)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Frisian *hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid. Cognates include German Lid and English lid.
Noun edit
Lid n (plural Líedere)