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, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, 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	not applicable
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)
2. to struggle (med / with)

Derived termsEdit

• slitesterk
• nedslitt
• utslitt

ReferencesEdit

• “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

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

1. Alternative form of slita

Derived termsEdit

• slitesterk

AdjectiveEdit

slite

1. neuter singular of sliten