lyth

Albanian

Alternative forms

• lyeth

Etymology

Diminutive in -th of lyer (“bedaubed, stained”), participle of lyej (“to daub, smear”).^[1] Similar formation in synonym lyrdhëz, from lyr (“to make greasy, oily; stain, make dirty”).

Noun

lyth m (plural lytha, definite lythi, definite plural lythat)

1. (medicine) wart
2. (medicine) mole
3. (medicine) callus
4. (botany) verruca
5. (figurative) vice, defect

Synonyms

• (wart, mole): lez, lyrdhëz, yll
• (callus): kallo
• (defect): cen

Derived terms

• lythet
• lythët

References

1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lyth”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 237

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lith, lythe, lithe, lyþ, liþ, liþe, liþthe, liyþe, litht, leth, lethe

Etymology 1

From Old English liþ (“limb, member, joint, point”).

Noun

lyth (plural lythes)

1. A point in the body where bones meet; a joint.
2. A limb.
3. (by extension) A part of something.

Descendants

• English: lith
• Scots: lith

Etymology 2

Noun

lyth

1. Alternative form of light