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
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “slite”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “slite”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• slütj (Föhr-Amrum)
• slüt (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *sleutaną.

• (Mooring) IPA^(key): [ˈslɪtʰə]

slite

1. (Mooring) to close, shut

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 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

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

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

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

slīte

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

slite

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