lye

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes). countable,uncountable
  2. Obsolete spelling of lie. alt-of,obsolete
  3. Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). countable,uncountable
    — She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.
  4. A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding. UK
    — Brakevan lye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclined lye for brakevans at each end of the yard.
动词 v.
  1. To treat with lye.
  2. Obsolete spelling of lie. alt-of,obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

lyes plural lyes present,singular,third-person lyeing participle,present lyed participle,past lyed past lyes present,singular,third-person lying participle,present lay past lain participle,past layn participle,past lyes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chamber lye lyed potash lye soda lye

词源

词源 1
From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”).
Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”); Russian м́ыло (ḿylo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)).
词源 2
Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett.
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