slite

See also: slité

English

Alternative forms

• sleight, slight
• slyte (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”).

Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”). Doublet of slit. More at slice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

Verb

slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slited, past participle slit or slitten or slited)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).

Noun

slite (uncountable)

1. (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

Anagrams

• IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, tiles

Irish

Alternative forms

• slighte (obsolete)

Noun

slite f

1. plural of slí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
slite	shlite after an, tslite	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “slite”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “slite”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse slíta.

Verb

slite (imperative slit, present tense sliter, passive slites, simple past slet or sleit, past participle slitt, present participle slitende)

1. to pull hard, to tear

   Synonyms: rive, rykke, røske

   slite seg løs ― to break loose, tear oneself free

2. (transitive) to tear, tear apart, rip up

   Synonyms: rive (av), avslite

   slite av noen klærene ― to tear somebody's clothes off

3. to wear out, use up

   Synonyms: oppslite, gjøre medtatt, gjøre slitt

   slite på noe ― to wear on something, to wear through something

   slite ut noe ― to wear something out

   slite opp noe ― to use something up, to wear something out

4. to work hard, toil, exert oneself

   Synonyms: streve, anstrenge seg, arbeide hardt

   slite seg ut ― to overexert oneself, to wear oneself out

5. to struggle, have difficulties

   slite med en oppgav ― to struggle with a task

6. to struggle, move towards some goal, to strive

   slite seg gjennom / mot et mål ― to strive towards a goal

   slite sammen ― to accumulate through much effort, to toil towards

Derived terms

• avslite
• forslite seg
• nedslitt
• oppslite
• slite av
• slite med
• slite opp
• slite på
• slite sammen
• slite seg gjennom
• slite seg løs
• slite seg mot
• slite seg ut
• slite ut
• slitesterk
• sønderslite
• utslitt

 

References

• “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “slite” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

slite (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)

1. Alternative form of slita

Derived terms

• slitesterk

Adjective

slite

1. neuter singular of sliten

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsliː.te/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsli.te/

Verb

slīte

1. inflection of slītan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

slite

1. inflection of slītan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive