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• homophone: lai
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• homophone: Leigh (some placenames)
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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”); Russian м́ыло (ḿylo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)).

Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: alisivë — caustic alkaline solution
• Albanian: vrer — caustic alkaline solution
• Armenian: մոխրաջուր (moxraǰur) — caustic alkaline solution
• Aromanian: alsivã — caustic alkaline solution
• Aromanian: alisivã — caustic alkaline solution
• Asturian: llexía — caustic alkaline solution
• Bulgarian: лу́га (lúga) — caustic alkaline solution
• Catalan: lleixiu — caustic alkaline solution
• Chinese Mandarin: 灰汁 (huīzhī) — caustic alkaline solution
• Chinese Mandarin: 灰水 (huīshuǐ) — caustic alkaline solution
• Czech: louh — caustic alkaline solution
• Danish: lud — caustic alkaline solution
• Dutch: loog — caustic alkaline solution
• Esperanto: alkala solvaĵo — caustic alkaline solution
• Estonian: leelis — caustic alkaline solution
• Finnish: lipeä — caustic alkaline solution
• French: soude — caustic alkaline solution
• French: soude caustique — caustic alkaline solution
• French: potasse caustique — caustic alkaline solution
• French: potasse — caustic alkaline solution
• Galician: lixivia — caustic alkaline solution
• Galician: bogada — caustic alkaline solution
• Galician: decoada — caustic alkaline solution
• Galician: cenrada — caustic alkaline solution
• German: Lauge — caustic alkaline solution
• Greek: αλισίβα (alisíva) — caustic alkaline solution
• Ancient Greek: ῥύμμα (rhúmma) — caustic alkaline solution
• Hungarian: lúg — caustic alkaline solution
• Icelandic: lútur — caustic alkaline solution
• Indonesian: lindi — caustic alkaline solution
• Irish: buac — caustic alkaline solution
• Italian: liscivia — caustic alkaline solution
• Italian: cenerata — caustic alkaline solution
• Italian: ranno — caustic alkaline solution
• Japanese: 灰汁 — caustic alkaline solution
• Japanese: あく (aku) — caustic alkaline solution
• Khmer: ក្បុង (kbong) — caustic alkaline solution
• Latin: lixa — caustic alkaline solution
• Macedonian: пепе́лница (pepélnica) — caustic alkaline solution
• Macedonian: цеѓ (ceǵ) — caustic alkaline solution
• Macedonian: лу́га (lúga) — caustic alkaline solution
• Manx: booag — caustic alkaline solution
• Norwegian Bokmål: lut — caustic alkaline solution
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lut — caustic alkaline solution
• Occitan: lessiu — caustic alkaline solution
• Persian: قلیا (qaliyā) — caustic alkaline solution
• Polish: ług — caustic alkaline solution
• Portuguese: lixívia — caustic alkaline solution
• Romanian: leșie — caustic alkaline solution
• Russian: щёлок (ščólok) — caustic alkaline solution
• Scottish Gaelic: buac — caustic alkaline solution
• Serbo-Croatian: лу̑г — caustic alkaline solution
• Serbo-Croatian: lȗg — caustic alkaline solution
• Sicilian: lissìa — caustic alkaline solution
• Sicilian: liscìa — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: lejía de ceniza — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: [el] agua de ceniza — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: jabón / detergente de ceniza — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: llicta — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: llipta — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: llijta / llucta — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: llista — caustic alkaline solution
• Spanish: llujta — caustic alkaline solution
• Sranan Tongo: adiwatra — caustic alkaline solution
• Swedish: lut — caustic alkaline solution
• Tagalog: lihiya — caustic alkaline solution
• Tagalog: tilis — caustic alkaline solution
• Thai: ด่าง (dàang) — caustic alkaline solution
• Turkish: buğada — caustic alkaline solution
• Turkish: kostik — caustic alkaline solution
• Ottoman Turkish: بوغاده (buğada) — caustic alkaline solution
• Ukrainian: луг (luh) — caustic alkaline solution
• Vietnamese: nước tro — caustic alkaline solution
• Vietnamese: nước tro tàu — caustic alkaline solution
• Welsh: lleisw — caustic alkaline solution
• Catalan: sosa càustica — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Czech: hydroxid draselný — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Czech: hydroxid sodný — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Dutch: natriumhydroxide — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Dutch: caustic soda — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Dutch: caustische soda — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Dutch: bijtende soda — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• French: soude caustique — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• French: hydroxyde de sodium — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• German: Ätznatron — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• German: kaustisches Soda — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Italian: idrossido di sodio — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Italian: soda caustica — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Portuguese: soda cáustica — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Russian: ка́устик (káustik) — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Russian: е́дкий натр (jédkij natr) — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Russian: е́дкое ка́ли (jédkoje káli) — potassium or sodium hydroxide
• Spanish: sosa cáustica — potassium or sodium hydroxide