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slite

slite

English

Alternative forms

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

Irish

Alternative forms

  • slighte (obsolete)

Noun

slite

  1. plural of slí

Mutation

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.

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)

Derived terms

References

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slaɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

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