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 *leu(ə)- (“to wash”).

Noun

Wikipedia

lye (countable and uncountable, plural lyes)

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

Translations

caustic alkaline solution

• Bulgarian: лу́га f (lúga)
• Catalan: lleixiu m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: louh m
• Danish: lud
• 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 f, potasse (fr) f
• German: Lauge (de) f
• Greek: αλισίβα (el) f (alisíva)
• Hungarian: lúg (hu)

• Icelandic: lútur
• Irish: buac f
• Italian: liscivia (it) f, cenerata f
• Japanese: 灰汁 (ja) (あく, aku), あく (ja) (aku)
• Norwegian: lut (no)
• Polish: ług (pl)
• Portuguese: lixívia (pt)
• Romanian: leșie (ro)
• Russian: щёлок (ru) m (ščólok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лу̑г m

  Roman: lȗg m

• Spanish: lejía (es) f
• Swedish: lut (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: lleixiu
• Occitan: lessiu
• Persian: آب قلیائی

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

See also

• Lye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

lye

1. Obsolete spelling of lie.

Etymology 2

Noun

lye (plural lyes)

1. (UK, railways) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• ley, yel