lyte

lyte (plural lytes)

1. Alternative form of light

From Old Norse lýta.

• lyte (e- and split infinitives)

• IPA^(key): /²lyːtə/

lyte (present tense lytar/lyter, past tense lyta/lytte, past participle lyta/lytt, passive infinitive lytast, present participle lytande, imperative lyte/lyt)

1. to scathe

• ljot (adjective)
• lyte n (Etymology 2)

From Old Norse lýti f (“ugliness”) and Old Norse lýti n (“flaw”). Akin to Danish lyde.

• IPA^(key): /²lyːtə/

lyte n (definite singular lytet, indefinite plural lyte, definite plural lyta)

1. a flaw

   Synonym: skavank

• lytefri

From Old Norse hljóta (“to get by lot”), from Proto-Germanic *hleutaną.

• lyta (a-infinitive)
• ljota, ljote (non-standard since 2012)

• IPA^(key): /²lyːtə/

lyte (present tense lyt, past tense laut, supine lote, past participle loten, present participle lytande)

1. to have to, must

   Synonyms: måtta, skulla

   No lyt eg gå heim.

   I have to go home now.

• “lyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• tyle, ylet, ylte

lyte n

1. bodily defect, bodily deformity
2. (figuratively) fault, vice

• lyte och men
• lyteskomik

• lytt

• lyte in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lyte in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lyte in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• ylet