lythe

English

Etymology 1

See lithe.

Adjective

lythe (comparative more lythe, superlative most lythe)

(obsolete) soft; flexible
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Alternative forms

laith
leet

Noun

lythe (plural lythes)

(Scotland) A fish, the European pollock.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lythe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Ethyl, Lethy, ethyl, lyeth, they'l

Middle English

Etymology 1

From from Old English lēoht (“light, daylight; power of vision; luminary; world”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (“light”).

Noun

lythe (plural lythes)

Alternative form of light

References

“light (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

Etymology 2

From Old English liþ (“limb, member, joint, point”).

Noun

lythe (plural lythes)

Alternative form of lyth

References

“lith (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

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