lye

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
2. (countable, uncountable) Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).

Verb

To treat with lye.

Verb

Obsolete spelling of lie.

Concetti

liscivia

ranno

soluzione alcalina

base

cenerata

condimento per la coca

lejia

sinonimi

alkali

alkaline

salt

🧂

alkaline solution

lixivium

buck

caustic soda

leach

basic salt

potash

soda

sodium hydroxide

soot

ashes

alkaline salt

ash

alkali liquor

Traduzioni

lessive

Lauge

loog

lejía

lixívia

lleixiu

αλισίβα

soude

lejia

διάλυμα

lessiu

ισχυρό αλκαλικό διάλυμα

αλισία

Natron

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/laɪ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: leye

Ereditato da inglese antico: lēah

Affine saterfriesisch: Loge

Affine olandese: loog

Affine tedesco: Lauge

In summary

From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”).
Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”).