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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slītan, 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”). Doublet of slit. More at slice.
Pronunciation
Verb
slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slited, past participle slit or slitten or slited)
- (transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
- (transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).
Noun
slite (uncountable)
- (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.
Anagrams
- IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, tiles
Irish
Alternative forms
Noun
slite f
- plural of slí
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| slite
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shlite
after an, tslite
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
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)
- to pull hard, to tear
- Synonyms: rive, rykke, røske
- slite seg løs ― to break loose, tear oneself free
- (transitive) to tear, tear apart, rip up
- Synonyms: rive (av), avslite
- slite av noen klærene ― to tear somebody's clothes off
- to wear out, use up
- Synonyms: oppslite, gjøre medtatt, gjøre slitt
- slite på noe ― to wear on something, to wear through something
- slite ut noe ― to wear something out
- slite opp noe ― to use something up, to wear somethingout
- to work hard, toil, exert oneself
- Synonyms: streve, anstrenge seg, arbeide hardt
- slite seg ut ― to overexert oneself, to wear oneself out
- to struggle, have difficulties
- slite med en oppgav ― to struggle with a task
- to struggle, move towards some goal, to strive
- slite seg gjennom / mot et mål ― to strive towards a goal
- slite sammen ― to accumulate through much effort, to toil towards
Derived terms
References
- “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “slite” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
slite (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)
- Alternative form of slita
Derived terms
Adjective
slite
- neuter singular of sliten