Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lide

/laɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English

Syllables: lide
IPA: /laɪd/

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

Obsolete; Uncountable

name

Example Sentences

""Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play.""
"I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'"
"Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome"
"And so it was that in the month of Lide (the villagers' name for Martius) a great wolf hunt was to be held in Suuremõisa once again, as soon as the ice across the strait of Soela had begun to thin and could no longer bear so much as a wolf's paw, […]"

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) + -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *ḱlew-, Lyde, hlȳda, -

Usage

Inflected Forms

Leede (alternative, obsolete) Lides (plural)

Rhymes With

side outside died inside side-by-side tried provide wide ride decide guide applied

Questions

How do you pronounce lide?: The recorded pronunciation is /laɪd/.
What does lide mean?: March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
Where does lide come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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