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Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]lyt
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic [Term?].
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]lȳt
- little, few
- (in compounds) inferior, subordinate
- lȳtle ― female slave
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]lȳt ? (indeclinable)
- little, few, a few (substantive use of the adverb)
- Ðæra is nu to lyt ðe wile wel tæcan
- There are now too few that can teach well.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
- Ure Drihten bebead his discipulum þæt hí sceoldon læran and tæcan eallum þeodum ða ðing þe he sylf him tæhte; ac þæra is nu to lyt ðe wile wel tæcan and wel bysnian.
- Our Lord commanded his disciples that they should instruct and teach all people the things which he had himself taught to them; but of those there are too few who will well teach and well exemplify.
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