lye

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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.

Hevwate

alkali

alkaline

salt

🧂

alkaline solution

lixivium

buck

caustic soda

leach

basic salt

potash

soda

sodium hydroxide

soot

ashes

alkaline salt

ash

alkali liquor

Werger

Lauge

lessive

liscivia

loog

lejía

ranno

lixívia

lleixiu

αλισίβα

soude

lessiu

διάλυμα

soluzione alcalina

lejia

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/laɪ/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: leye

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: lēah

Hevwate bi Saterfriesisch: Loge

Hevwate bi holendî: loog

Hevwate bi almanî: 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”).