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See also: Lie, LIE, lié, líe, liè, liē, liě, li'e, -lie, and łie

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lie

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Likila.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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A dog lying in the grass.

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Cognates

Cognate with Yola lee, lidge (“to lie”), leigh, leiough (“to idle”), North Frisian lade, lai, laie, lei, lii, läde, läie (“to lie; to lay”), Saterland Frisian lääse (“to lie; to lay”), West Frisian lizze (“to lie”), Alemannic German ligge (“to lie”), Central Franconian lijje (“to lie”), Dutch and Dutch Low Saxon liggen (“to lie”), German liegen (“to lie”), German Low German ligge, liggen (“to lie”), Luxembourgish leien (“to lie”), Yiddish ליגן (lign, “to lie”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge (“to lie”), Faroese and Icelandic liggja (“to lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk ligge, liggja, liggje (“to lie”), Swedish ligga (“to lie”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan, “to lie, to rest”); and with Irish laigh, luigh (“to lie”), Manx lhie (“lie; lay”), Scottish Gaelic laigh (“lie; lay”), Faliscan 𐌋𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌕 (lecet, “he lies down”), Latin lectus (“bed”), South Picene 𐌅𐌄𐌉𐌀𐌕 (veiat, “to lie”), Ancient Greek λέχομαι (lékhomai, “to lie down”), Albanian lag (“band, encampment, troop”), Belarusian ляжа́ць (ljažácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лежа́ (ležá, “to lie”), Czech ležet (“to lie”), Macedonian лежи (leži, “to lie”), Polish leżeć (“to lie”), Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian лѐжати, lèžati (“to lie”), Slovene ležáti (“to lie”), Ukrainian лежа́ти (ležáty, “to lie”), Tocharian B lyäk- (“to lie”).

As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.

Verb

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lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay or (colloquial) laid, past participle lain or (colloquial) laid or (obsolete) lien) (see usage notes)

  2. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
    The book lies on the table;  the snow lies on the roof;  he lies in his coffin.
    Under an oak were lying asleep a pair of shepherds.
  3. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
    • 1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “Selected Translations”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910)‎[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:
      Ying-yang county lies 70 li southwest of the modern Teng-feng county, Honan.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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.
    • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
      From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
  4. (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
    to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves
    The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
  5. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
    • c. 1690, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy:
      Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
    • 1693, [John Locke], “§2016”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
      He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.
  6. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
  7. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
  8. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  9. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  10. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
    • 1737, Cart against Marsh (legal case)
      An appeal lies in this case from the ordinary to the arches.
Usage notes
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  • See the usage notes of lay.
Conjugation
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Conjugation of lie
infinitive (to) lie
present tense past tense
1st-person singular lie lay
2nd-person singular lie, lyest† lay, layst†
3rd-person singular lies, lyeth† lay
plural lie
subjunctive lie lay
imperative lie —
participles lying lain, lien†

† Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms
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  • lay, a corresponding transitive version of this word
  • lees
  • lier
Translations
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Noun

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lie (plural lies)

  1. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  2. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
  3. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  4. A manner of lying; relative position.
  5. An animal's lair.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English lēogan (“to lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to announce, tell publicly”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots lee (“to lie”), North Frisian jooge, leeg, löög (“to lie”), Saterland Frisian ljooge (“to lie”), West Frisian lige (“to lie”), Bavarian liagn (“to lie”), Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Luxembourgish léien (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Faroese lúgva (“to lie”), Icelandic ljúga (“to lie”), Norwegian Bokmål juge, lyge, lyve (“to lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk ljuga, ljuge, lyga, lyge (“to lie”), Scanian ljuğa (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (liugan, “to lie”); also Breton le (“vow”), Cornish li (“oath”), Welsh llw (“oath, pledge, vow; curse, swear word”), Latvian lùgt (“to ask; to request; to seek; to plead; to solicit; to invoke; to desire”), Belarusian ілга́ць (ilhácʹ), лга́ць (lhácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (lǎža, “to lie”), Czech lhát (“to lie”), Kashubian łżec (“to lie”), Macedonian ла́же (láže, “to lie”), Polish łgać (“to lie”), Russian лгать (lgatʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian ла̀гати, làgati (“to lie”), Slovak luhať (“to lie”), Slovene lagáti (“to lie”).

Verb

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lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past and past participle lied)

  2. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
    When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
    If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
    Don't lie to me!
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 54:
      It is true that the latter had assumed much more of the fault than was rightly his, but if he lied a little he may be excused, for he lied in the service of a woman, and he lied like a gentleman.
    • 2003, “The Package”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
      Lie to get what I came for
      Lie to get just what I need
      Lie to get what I crave
      Lie and smile to get what's mine
  3. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
    Photographs often lie.
  4. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
    Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.
Conjugation
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Conjugation of lie
infinitive (to) lie
present tense past tense
1st-person singular lie lied
2nd-person singular lie, liest† lied, liedst†
3rd-person singular lies, lieth† lied
plural lie
subjunctive lie lied
imperative lie —
participles lying lied

† Archaic or obsolete.

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Etymology 3

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From Middle English lie, from Old English lyġe (“lie”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to announce, tell publicly”).

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Löägene (“a lie”), Dutch leugen, logen, loogen (“a lie”), German Lug, Lüge, Lügen (“a lie”), German Low German Lögen (“a lie”), Luxembourgish Ligen (“a lie”), Yiddish ליגן (lign, “a lie”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løgn (“a lie”), Icelandic lygi, lygn (“a lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk lygn, løgn (“a lie”), Swedish lögn (“a lie”); also Bulgarian лъжа́ (lǎžá, “а lie”), Czech lež (“a lie”), Russian ложь (ložʹ, “а lie”), Polish łeż (“a lie”), Serbo-Croatian ла̑ж, laž (“a lie”), Slovak lož (“a lie”), Slovene lȃž (“a lie”).

Noun

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lie (plural lies)

  2. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
    Synonyms: alternative fact, deception, fabrication, falsehood, fib, leasing, nonsense, prevarication, tall tale, whopper; see also Thesaurus:lie
    Antonym: truth
    I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
  3. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
    Synonym: half-truth
  4. (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
  5. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
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  • Sense 4 is usually expressed as you a lie, he a lie, etc.
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Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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Alternative forms

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lie

  1. leave

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlie̯(ˣ)/, [ˈlie̞̯(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): lie
  • Hyphenation(key): lie

Verb

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lie

  1. (dialectal) third-person singular potential present of olla
    Se on missä lie.
    It's somewhere. / I wonder where it is.
    Tai mitä lie ovatkaan.
    Or whatever they are.
    Kyllä asia lie juuri näin.
    Yes, the thing supposedly is just like that.

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  • This form is commonly used in certain dialects, like the North Karelian dialect, and is also quite common colloquially in other regions. In standard Finnish, the word is only used in highly literary or solemn contexts. Can be used with any person. As a main verb, the form simply occurs in present tense. As an auxiliary verb form, it may take place in the perfect tense form of any verb. In dialectal use, the form can typically be seen in both direct and indirect questions.

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French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French lie, from Early Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).

Noun

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lie f (plural lies)

  1. lees, dregs (of wine, of society)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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lie

  1. inflection of lier:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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lie (lie5 / lie0, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄧㄝ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咧

lie

  1. nonstandard spelling of liē
  2. nonstandard spelling of lié
  3. nonstandard spelling of liě
  4. nonstandard spelling of liè

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Old French

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Etymology

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From Early Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).

Noun

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lie oblique singular, f (oblique plural lies, nominative singular lie, nominative plural lies)

  1. dregs; mostly solid, undesirable leftovers of a drink

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  • → English: lees

Old Irish

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Etymology

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Details uncertain. Perhaps suppletive from two related stems; Matasović explains the nominative(-vocative) singular as continuing Proto-Celtic *līwos and the other case forms as from *līwanks[1] (with its suffix of unexplained origin). However, on the basis of the root vowel in Middle Irish (Book of Leinster) lecaib (dat.pl.), this is rejected by Zair, who instead reconstructs Proto-Celtic *lesank- or *leɸank- (compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “crag”)[2]) and explains the nominative singular -i- as from hiatus.[3] The Indo-European origin, if any, is disputed.

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Noun

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lie m (genitive lïac or lïacc)

  1. a stone
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4d15
      In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.
      The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 65a1
      Níbu machdath do·rónta día dind lïac.
      It was not a wonder that a god would be made of the stone.

Declension

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Masculine k-stem
singular dual plural
nominative lie liicL liic
vocative lie liicL lïaca
accusative liicN, lieicN liicL lïaca
genitive lïac, lïacc lïac, lïacc lïacN, lïaccN
dative liicL, lieicL lïacaib lïacaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Mutation

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Mutation of lie
radical lenition nasalization
lie
also llie in h-prothesis environments		 lie
pronounced with /lʲ-/		 lie
also llie

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*līwank-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
  2. ^ Pronk, Tijmen (2019), “Eichner’s law: a critical survey of the evidence”, in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, volume 73, number 1, Munich: J.H. Röll Verlag, →ISSN, page 134–135 of 121–155, example 13
  3. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 252–253

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Portuguese

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lie

  1. inflection of liar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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lie

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of liar

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
lie
Liemannen har en lie [The Grim Reaper has a scythe]
slåtter med lie / lieslåtter [mowing hay with scythes [scythe]]

Etymology

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From Old Swedish līe, lē, from Old Norse lé, from Proto-Germanic *lewô, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to cut”).

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lie c

  1. a scythe (instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like)
    Han slog ängen med lie
    He mowed the meadow with a scythe ["with scythe," with that implement]

Declension

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Declension of lie
nominative genitive
singular indefinite lie lies
definite lien liens
plural indefinite liar liars
definite liarna liarnas

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  • blad (“blade”)
  • knagg (“grip, nib (handle on a snath (scythe shaft, orv))”)
  • orv (“snath (the shaft of a scythe)”)
  • skära (“sickle”)
  • slåtter (“mowing (of grass for hay)”)

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