lye

See also: lyé, -lye, and Lye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: lie, lai

Etymology 1

From Old English lēag, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

Noun

lye (countable and uncountable, plural lyes)

1. An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
2. Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).

Derived terms

• lyed

Translations

caustic alkaline solution

• Albanian: alisivë (sq) f
• Armenian: մոխրաջուր (hy) (moxraǰur)
• Aromanian: alsivã f, alisivã f
• Bulgarian: лу́га f (lúga)
• Catalan: lleixiu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灰汁 (zh) (huīzhī), 灰水 (huīshuǐ)

• Czech: louh m
• Danish: lud c
• Dutch: loog (nl) n
• Esperanto: alkala solvaĵo
• Finnish: lipeä (fi)
• French: soude (fr) f, soude caustique (fr) f, lessive de soude (fr) f, potasse caustique (fr) f, potasse (fr) f
• Galician: lixivia f, bogada f, decoada f, cenrada f
• German: Lauge (de) f
• Greek: αλισίβα (el) f (alisíva)

  Ancient: ῥύμμα n (rhúmma)

• Hungarian: lúg (hu)
• Icelandic: lútur
• Irish: buac f
• Italian: liscivia (it) f, cenerata f, ranno (it) m

• Japanese: 灰汁 (ja) (あく, aku), あく (ja) (aku)
• Latin: lixa f
• Manx: booag f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lut (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: lut m or f

• Occitan: lessiu m
• Polish: ług (pl)
• Portuguese: lixívia (pt)
• Romanian: leșie (ro) f
• Russian: щёлок (ru) m (ščólok)
• Scottish Gaelic: buac m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лу̑г m

  Roman: lȗg (sh) m

• Spanish: lejía (es) f
• Swedish: lut (sv) c
• Tagalog: lihiya, tilis
• Thai: ด่าง (th) (dàang)
• Ukrainian: луг m (luh)
• Welsh: lleisw m

potassium or sodium hydroxide

• Czech: hydroxid draselný m, hydroxid sodný m
• Dutch: natriumhydroxide n, caustic soda m or f, caustische soda m or f, bijtende soda m or f
• French: soude caustique (fr) f, hydroxyde de sodium (fr)
• German: Ätznatron n, kaustisches Soda n

• Italian: idrossido di sodio (it) m, soda caustica (it) f
• Portuguese: soda cáustica
• Russian: ка́устик (ru) m (káustik) (sodium hydroxide), е́дкий натр (ru) m (jédkij natr) (sodium hydroxide), е́дкое ка́ли (ru) n (jédkoje káli) (potassium hydroxide)

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Translations to be checked

• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} lessiu
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} آب قلیائی‎

• Quechua: ^{(please verify)} lliptʼa
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} nước (vi) ^{(please verify)} gio (vi)

Verb

lye (third-person singular simple present lyes, present participle lyeing or lying, simple past and past participle lyed)

1. To treat with lye.

Further reading

• lye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lye (plural lyes)

1. (UK, rail transport) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
   • 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II: The new Perth marshalling yard”, in Modern Railways, page 273, photo caption with indicating arrow:

     Brakevan lye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclined lye for brakevans at each end of the yard.

Etymology 3

Verb

lye (third-person singular simple present lyes, present participle lying, simple past lay, past participle lain or layn)

1. Obsolete spelling of lie.
   • 1654, John Donne, Loves Diet

     Now negligent of sports I lye,
     And now as other Fawkners use,
     I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
     And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.

   • 1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 460679539, page 88:

     But when his foe lyes proſtrate on the plain,
     He ſheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;
     And, pleas'd with bloudleſs honours of the day,
     Walks over, and diſdains th' inglorious Prey, […]

References

“lye” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ely, Ley, ley, yel

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlýja, from the adjective hlýr.

Alternative forms

• lya (a infinitive)

Verb

lye (present tense lyer, past tense lydde, past participle lydd/lytt, passive infinitive lyast, present participle lyande, imperative ly)

1. to warm up, give off warmth

Etymology 2

Verb

lye (present tense lyar or lyer, past tense lya or lydde, past participle lya or lydd, present participle lyande)

1. Eye dialect spelling of lyde.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

lye

1. inflection of ly:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “lye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Lye, yle