slite

• sleight, slight
• slyte (Scotland)

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.

• IPA^(key): /slaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

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).

slite (uncountable)

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

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

• slighte (obsolete)

slite f

1. plural of slí

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

From Old Norse slíta.

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

1. to wear (ut / out)
2. to struggle (med / with)

• slitesterk
• nedslitt
• utslitt

• “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

1. Alternative form of slita

• slitesterk

slite

1. neuter singular of sliten