Faroese

Noun

lið f (genitive singular liðar, plural liðir)

1. side
   • lið um lið

     side by side

   • liggja á liðini
     1. (humans and animals) to lie on the side
     2. (ship) to heel a lot in the sea

Synonyms

• síða, flati

Declension

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, plural lið)

1. chain link
2. generation

Declension

Derived terms

• ættarlið (generation)

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hlið (‘gate’)

Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, plural lið)

1. gate

Declension

Etymology 4

From Old Norse lið ‎(“flock,team”).

Noun

lið n (genitive singular liðs, plural lið)

1. flock, group
2. (sports) team
3. (poetic) army
4. support

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lið.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪːð/

  Rhymes: -ɪːð

Noun

lið n

1. people, folk
2. host, army, men-at-arms, forces
3. team (in sports, games, competitions, etc.)

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈlið/

Noun

lið n (genitive liðs, plural lið)

1. 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 […]

2. 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, […]

3. 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.

4. 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, […]

Declension

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Descendants

References

• lið in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• lið in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.