litha

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• līa (Late Old West Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līþan, from Proto-Germanic *līþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyt-. Cognate with Old High German līdan, Old Dutch līthan, Old Saxon līthan, Old English līþan, Old Norse líða, Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 (*leiþan).

Verb

lītha

1. to suffer

Conjugation

Conjugation of lītha (strong class 1)

infinitive	lītha
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	līthe	lēth
2nd person singular	līthest, līthst	lēthest, lēthst
3rd person singular	lītheth, līthth	lēth
plural	līthath	lithen
subjunctive	present	past
singular	līthe	lithe
plural	līthe, līthen	lithe, lithen
imperative	present
singular	līth
plural	lītheth
participle	present	past
	līthande	elithen, lithen

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum:

  Mooring:

  Sylt:

  Wiedingharde:

• Saterland Frisian: liede
• West Frisian: lyen, lye, lit, lije

Yola

Adjective

litha

1. Alternative form of lethel

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 54