FromMiddle Englishleye,lye, fromOld Englishlēah,lēag(“lye”), fromProto-West Germanic*laugu, fromProto-Germanic*laugō, fromProto-Indo-European*lewh₃-(“to wash”). Cognate withSaterland FrisianLoge,Looie(“lye”),Dutchloog(“lye”),German Low GermanLoge,Loje,Loog(“lye”),GermanLauge(“lye”).
Compare typologically Ancient Greekῥύμμα(rhúmma) <ῥύπτω(rhúptō,“to cleanse, to wash”).
lye (countable anduncountable,plurallyes)
- Analkaline liquid made byleaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
- Potassium orsodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
caustic alkaline solution
- Albanian:alisivë (sq) f,vrer (sq) m
- Armenian:մոխրաջուր (hy)(moxraǰur)
- Aromanian:alsivã f,alisivã f
- Asturian:llexía f
- Bulgarian:лу́га (bg) f(lúga)
- Catalan:lleixiu (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:灰汁 (zh)(huīzhī),灰水(huīshuǐ)
- Czech:louh m
- Danish:lud c
- Dutch:loog (nl) n
- Esperanto:alkala solvaĵo
- Estonian:leelis
- Finnish:lipeä (fi)
- French:soude (fr) f,soude caustique (fr) f,lessive de soude (fr) f,potasse caustique (fr) f,potasse (fr) f
- Galician:lixivia (gl) f,bogada f,decoada f,cenrada f
- German:Lauge (de) f
- Greek:αλισίβα (el) f(alisíva)
- Ancient:ῥύμμα n(rhúmma)
- Hungarian:lúg (hu)
- Icelandic:lútur
- Indonesian:lindi
- Irish:buac f
- Italian:liscivia (it) f,cenerata f,ranno (it) m
- Japanese:灰汁 (ja),あく (ja)(aku)
- Khmer:ក្បុង (km)(kbong)
- Latin:lixa f
- Macedonian:пепе́лница f(pepélnica),цеѓ m(ceǵ),лу́га f(lúga)
- Manx:booag f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:lut (no) m orf
- Nynorsk:lut m orf
- Occitan:lessiu m
- Ottoman Turkish:بوغاده(buğada)
- Polish:ług (pl)
- Portuguese:lixívia (pt)
- Romanian:leșie (ro) f
- Russian:щёлок (ru) m(ščólok)
- Scottish Gaelic:buac m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:лу̑г m
- Roman:lȗg (sh) m
- Sicilian:lissìa f,liscìa (scn) f
- Spanish:lejíadeceniza f,[el]aguadeceniza f,jabón /detergentedeceniza m,llicta f,llipta f(Peru),llijta /llucta f(Andes),llista f(Argentina),llujta f(Bolivia)
- Swedish:lut (sv) c
- Tagalog:lihiya,tilis
- Thai:ด่าง (th)(dàang)
- Turkish:buğada,kostik (tr)
- Ukrainian:луг m(luh)
- Vietnamese:nước tro,nước tro tàu
- Welsh:lleisw m
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lye (third-person singular simple presentlyes,present participlelyeing,simple past and past participlelyed)
- To treat with lye.
Variant oflie(“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; comparesett.
lye (third-person singular simple presentlyes,present participlelying,simple pastlay,past participlelainorlayn)
- Obsolete spelling oflie.
1654,John Donne,Loves Diet:Now negligent of sports Ilye,
And now as other Fawkners use,
I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.
1687,[John Dryden], “The Third Part”, inThe Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […],→OCLC,page88:But when his foelyes proſtrate on the plain,
He ſheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;
And, pleas'd with bloudleſs honours of the day,
Walks over, and diſdains th' inglorious Prey,[…]
lye (plurallyes)
- Obsolete spelling oflie.
- (UK, rail transport) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; asiding.
1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II: The new Perth marshalling yard”, inModern Railways, page 273, photo caption with indicating arrow:Brakevanlye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclinedlye for brakevans at each end of the yard.
“lye”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
FromOld Norsehlýja, from the adjectivehlýr.
lye (present tenselyer,past tenselydde,past participlelytt/lydd,passive infinitivelyast,present participlelyande,imperatively)
- towarm up,give offwarmth
lye (present tenselyarorlyer,past tenselyaorlydde,past participlelyaorlydd,present participlelyande)
- eye dialect spelling oflyde
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
lye
- inflection ofly:
- definitesingular
- plural
- “lye” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.
Possibly fromMiddle Englishlẹ̄(“a place of shelter or protection”).
lye
- A fishingground.
- A tilled patch ofland.
- Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, inlrish University Review[1], volume20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page158
