lithe

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬, Danish, Dutch, and archaic German. Some sources also list 🇨🇬 and/or 🇨🇬 as possible cognates.

Adjective

 * 1)  Mild; calm.
 * 2) Slim but not skinny.
 * 3) Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
 * 4) * 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
 * … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
 * 1) Adaptable.
 * 1) Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
 * 2) * 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
 * … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
 * 1) Adaptable.
 * 1) * 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
 * … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
 * 1) Adaptable.
 * 1) Adaptable.
 * 1) Adaptable.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * German: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: scaoilte
 * Latvian: slaids
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: scaoilte, ligthe
 * Maori: moruki
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 2
From, from , , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To become calm.
 * 2)  To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

Etymology 3
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To attend; listen, hearken.
 * 2)  To listen to, hearken to.

Etymology 4

 * perhaps an alteration of.

Noun

 * 1)  Shelter.

Etymology 5
From

Verb

 * 1)  to thicken (gravy, etc.)
 * 2) * 1994, Arnold Kellett, The English Dialect Dictionary, Smith Settle, page 105
 * lithe 'to thicken soups, sauces, etc.'
 * 1) * 1994, Arnold Kellett, The English Dialect Dictionary, Smith Settle, page 105
 * lithe 'to thicken soups, sauces, etc.'