slite

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• sleight, slight
• slyte (Scotland)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan ‎(“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną ‎(“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”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /slaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

VerbEdit

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).

NounEdit

slite ‎(uncountable)

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

AnagramsEdit

• IELTS
• islet
• liest
• stile
• tiles

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IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• slighte (obsolete)

NounEdit

slite

1. plural of slí

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
slite	shlite after an, tslite	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse slíta

VerbEdit

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

1. to wear (ut / out)

Derived termsEdit

• utslitt

ReferencesEdit

• “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.