lye

English

Etymology

From Old English lēag, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *leu(ə)- (“to wash”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /laɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: lie, lai

Noun

lye (uncountable)

1. A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium or sodium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap as well as its use in biodiesel.

Translations

caustic alkaline solution

Chinese: Mandarin: 灰汁 (cmn) (huīzhī), 灰水 (cmn) (huīshuǐ) Czech: louh (cs) m. Danish: lud (da) Dutch: loog (nl) n. Esperanto: alkala solvaĵo (eo) Finnish: lipeä (fi) French: soude (fr) f. German: Lauge (de) f. Greek: αλισίβα (el) (alisíva) f. Hungarian: lúg (hu)

Icelandic: lútur (is) Irish: buac (ga) f. Italian: liscivia (it) f., cenerata (it) f. Norwegian: lut (no) Polish: ług (pl) Portuguese: lixívia (pt) Romanian: leșie (ro) Russian: щёлок (ru) (ṧ'ólok) m. Spanish: lejía (es) f. Swedish: lut (sv)

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Catalan : lleixiu (ca) Occitan : lessiu (oc) Persian: آب قلیائی (fa)

Quechua : lliptʼa (qu) Vietnamese : nước (vi) gio (vi)

See also

• Lye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

lye

1. Obsolete spelling of lie.

Anagrams

• ley, yel