liss

From Middle English lis, lisse, lysse, from Old English liss, līs, līþs (“grace, favor, love, kindness, mercy, joy, peace, rest, remission, forgiveness, alleviation, salvation”), from Proto-Germanic *linþisjō (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *lent- (“bendsome, resilient”). Cognate with Danish lise (“solace, relief”), Swedish lisa (“solace, relief”). Related to Old English līþe (“lithe, soft, gentle, meek, mild, serene, benign, gracious, pleasant, sweet”). See lithe.

liss (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.

   Synonyms: relief, solace; see also Thesaurus:consolation

2. (obsolete) Comfort; happiness.

   Synonyms: cheeriness, contentment; see also Thesaurus:happiness

3. (obsolete, UK dialectal) A respite from pain.

From Middle English lissen, lyssen, from Old English lissan (“to subdue”), from Old English liss. Cognate with Swedish lisa (“to soften, weaken”). See above.

liss (third-person singular simple present lisses, present participle lissing, simple past and past participle lissed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To ease; lighten; relieve; abate.
2. (obsolete, UK dialectal) To cease; stop.

• SILS, SILs, SLIs

• (originally) līþs, líðs

From earlier līþs, from líþe (“gentle, mild”)

• IPA^(key): /liss/, [lis]

liss f

1. mildness, mercy, kindness, grace

Strong ō-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “liss”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.