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-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”).

• IPA^(key): /slaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slote 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

1. plural of slí

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, past participle slite, present participle slitande, imperative slit)

1. Alternative form of slita

• slitesterk

slite

1. neuter singular of sliten