# slite
## English
### Alternative forms

* sleight, slight
* slyte (Scotland)

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slaɪt/
* Rhymes: -aɪt

### Verb

slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slited, past participle slit or slitten or slited)
* (transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
* (transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).

### Noun

slite (uncountable)
* (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

### Anagrams

* IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, tiles

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* slighte (obsolete)

### Noun

slite f
* plural of slí

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* 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

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* slütj (Föhr-Amrum)
* slüt (Sylt)

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sleutaną.

### Pronunciation

* (Mooring) IPA: [ˈslɪtʰə]

### Verb

slite
* (Mooring) to close, shut

#### Conjugation
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse slíta.

### Verb

slite (imperative slit, present tense sliter, passive slites, simple past slet or sleit, past participle slitt, present participle slitende)
* to pull hard, to tear
    Synonyms: rive, rykke, røske
    slite seg løs ― to break loose, tear oneself free
* (transitive) to tear, tear apart, rip up
    Synonyms: rive (av), avslite
    slite av noen klærene ― to tear somebody's clothes off
* 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
* to work hard, toil, exert oneself
    Synonyms: streve, anstrenge seg, arbeide hardt
    slite seg ut ― to overexert oneself, to wear oneself out
* to struggle, have difficulties
    slite med en oppgav ― to struggle with a task
* 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

#### Derived terms

* avslite
* forslite seg
* nedslitt
* oppslite
* slite av
* slite med
* slite opp
* slite på
* slite sammen
* slite seg gjennom
* slite seg løs
* slite seg mot
* slite seg ut
* slite ut
* slitesterk
* sønderslite
* utslitt

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

slite (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)
* Alternative form of slita

#### Derived terms

* slitesterk

### Adjective

slite
* neuter singular of sliten

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsliː.te/
* IPA: /ˈsli.te/

### Verb

slīte
* inflection of slītan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

### Verb

slite
* inflection of slītan:
** second-person singular preterite indicative
** singular preterite subjunctive