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

Declension

Declension of lyth

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lyth	lythi	lytha	lythat
accusative		lythin
dative	lythi	lythit	lythave	lythave
ablative			lythash

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