# lið
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [liː]
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlið (“side”), from Proto-Germanic *hlidiz (“side”).

#### Noun

lið f (genitive singular liðar, plural liðir)
* side
    lið um lið ― side by side
    liggja á liðini ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
*   * (humans and animals) to lie on the side
*   * (ship) to heel a lot in the sea

##### Synonyms

* síða, flati

### Etymology 2

Unknown.

#### Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, plural lið)
* chain link
* generation

##### Derived terms

* ættarlið (generation)

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse hlið (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (“lid, cover”).

#### Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, plural lið)
* gate

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

From Old Norse lið (“flock,team”), from Proto-Germanic *lidą (“flock, followers, group”).

#### Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, plural lið)
* flock, group
* (sports) team
* (poetic) army
* support

##### Declension
## Icelandic
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse lið, from Proto-Germanic *lidą (“flock, crowd, group”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪːð/
    Rhymes: -ɪːð

#### Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, nominative plural lið)
* people, folk
* host, army, men-at-arms, forces
* team (in sports, games, competitions, etc.)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lið
* indefinite accusative/dative singular of liður

## Old Norse
### Etymology

Either from Proto-Germanic *lidą (“followers, flock”) or derived from líða (“to pass, go by”).

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈlið/

### Noun

lið n (genitive liðs, plural lið)
* host, folk, people
** Vǫluspá, verse 14, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 3:
    Mál er dverga / í Dvalins liði […]
    It is time for the dwarfs / of Dwalin's folk […]
* family, household
** Egils saga 18, in 1809, G. Magnússon, Egils-saga: sive Egilli Skallagrimii vita. Copenhagen, page 77:
    […] hafdi þá ok ecki færa lid med fer, en hina fyrri vetr, […]
    […] so he had no household with him, as in the last winter, […]
* army, host
** Egils saga 57, in 1809, G. Magnússon, Egils-saga: sive Egilli Skallagrimii vita. Copenhagen, page 341:
    Eiríkr konúngr hafdi VI lángſkip edr VII, ok öll vel ſkiput, þar var ok mikit lid af bændum.
    King Eric had six or seven longships, all well-equipped, and there was also a large host of peasants.
* aid, assistance
** Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 144:
    Nu þarf hann at leggia fe til socnar eþa gefa til liþs, […]
    Now he needs to provide a fee to the prosecution or to [his own] aid, […]

#### Derived terms

* liðdrjugr (“strong, powerful”)
* liðdráttr (“assembling troops”)
* liðfár (“short of men”)
* liðfæð (“scarcity of men”)
* liðfœrr (“able-bodied”)
* liðgóðr (“good at doing”)
* liðhenda, liðhending (“kind of metre”)
* liðliga (“adroitly, handily”)
* liðligr (“adroit, handy”)
* liðlítill (“having few men”)
* liðmannliga (“adroitly, handily”)
* liðmannligr (“adroit, handy”)
* liðmargr (“having many men”)
* liðmikill (“having many men”)
* liðmjúkr (“lithe, limber”)
* liðrækr (“rejected from the host”)
* liðsafli (“forces, troops”)
* liðsamligr (“likely to be helpful”)
* liðsamnaðr (“gathering of troops”)
* liðsamr (“ready to help”)
* liðsbeini (“assistance”)
* liðsbón (“prayer for help”)
* liðsdráttr (“assembling troops”)
* liðsemd (“assistance”)
* liðsfjǫldi (“greathost”)
* liðshǫfðingi (“captain of a host”)
* liðsinna (“to assist”)
* liðsinni (“assistance”)
* liðsinnismaðr (“helper”)
* liðskortr (“lack of men”)
* liðskostr (“military force”)
* liðskylfr (“requirig many people”)
* liðslaun (“reward for help”)
* liðsmaðr (“follower, warrior”)
* liðsmenn (“the men of one's army”)
* liðsmunr (“odds”)
* liðssamnaðr (“gathering of troops”)
* liðsþurfi (“in need of help”)
* liðvani (“lacking men”)
* liðvaskr (“doughty, valiant”)
* liðveizla (“support”)
* liðveizlumaðr (“supporter”)
* liðþurft, liðþǫrf (“need of help”)

#### Related terms

* liði (“follower”)
* líða (“to pass, go by”)

#### Descendants

* Faroese: lið n
* Icelandic: lið n
* Old Swedish: liþ n

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “lið”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 387
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lið”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 270; also available at the Internet Archive