lie
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
Old English licgan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjanan, from Proto-Indo-European *legh-. Cognate with Danish ligge, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan), Swedish ligga; and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luighe, Russian лежать.
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.
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lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay, past participle lain)
- (intransitive) To be in a horizontal position.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
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Terms derived from lie (verb)
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be in horizontal position
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be situated
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[edit] Noun
lie (plural lies)
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
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golf term
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English lēogan (“to lie”), from Proto-Germanic *leuganan (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *leugh- (“to lie, swear, bemoan”). Cognate with Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (“to lie”), Russian лгать (“to lie”).
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lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past and past participle lied)
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally.
- When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
- If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Photos often lie.
- Hips don't lie.
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tell an intentional untruth
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[edit] Etymology 3
From Middle English, from Old English lyġe (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *leugh- (“to tell lies, swear, complain”). Cognate with Old Saxon luggi (“a lie”), Old High German lugī (German Lüge, “a lie”), Danish løgn (“a lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (“а lie”),
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lie (plural lies)
- A deliberately false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
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- barefaced lie
- belie
- give lie to
- give the lie to
- I tell a lie
- lie detector
- sex, lies and videotape
- white lie
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untruth
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[edit] Finnish
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lie
- (nonstandard) Third-person singular potential present form of olla.
- Se on missä lie.
- It's somewhere. / I wonder where it is.
- Tai mitä lie ovatkaan
- Or whatever they are.
- Se on missä lie.
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- This form is used mostly in the expression missä lie.
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- (3rd-pers. sg. potent. pres. of olla; standard) lienee
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[edit] Etymology
Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *liga (“silt, sediment”), from Proto-Indo-European *legh- (“to lie, to lay”).
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lie f. (plural lies)
- dregs (of wine, of society)
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lie
- First-person singular indicative present of lier
- First-person singular subjunctive present of lier
- Third-person singular indicative present of lier
- Third-person singular subjunctive present of lier
- Second-person singular imperative present of lier
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- 咦: expression of surprise
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lie
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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
[edit] Spanish
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lie (infinitive liar)
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Etymology
Old Swedish līe, lē, from Old Norse lé, from Proto-Germanic *lewan, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to cut”).
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- IPA: /liːɛ/
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lie c.
- scythe; an instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like.
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- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English verbs
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- en:Golf
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English irregular verbs
- English terms with multiple etymologies
- Finnish nonstandard terms
- Finnish verb forms
- French terms derived from Transalpine Gaulish
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French verb forms
- Mandarin pinyin with diacritics
- Mandarin pinyin
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- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb indicative forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
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- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
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