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Middle English
Noun
lyte (plural lytes)
- Alternative form of light
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse lýta.
- lyte (e- and split infinitives)
Pronunciation
Verb
lyte (present tense lytar/lyter, past tense lyta/lytte, past participle lyta/lytt, passive infinitive lytast, present participle lytande, imperative lyte/lyt)
- to scathe
- ljot (adjective)
- lyte n (Etymology 2)
Etymology 2
From Old Norse lýti f (“ugliness”) and Old Norse lýti n (“flaw”). Akin to Danish lyde.
Pronunciation
Noun
lyte n (definite singular lytet, indefinite plural lyte, definite plural lyta)
- a flaw
- Synonym: skavank
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Old Norse hljóta (“to get by lot”), from Proto-Germanic *hleutaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
lyte (present tense lyt, past tense laut, supine lote, past participle loten, present participle lytande)
- to have to, must
- Synonyms: måtta, skulla
No lyt eg gå heim.- I have to go home now.
References
- “lyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Swedish
Noun
lyte n
- bodily defect, bodily deformity
- (figuratively) fault, vice
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