different between blive vs slive

English

Verb

blive (third-person singular simple present blives, present participle bliving, simple past blove, past participle bliven)

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of belive ("to remain").

Adverb

blive (comparative more blive, superlative most blive)

1. (obsolete) quickly; forthwith
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto III, stanza XVIII.

     "Perdy, sir knight,' saide then th' enchaunter blive […]

Anagrams

• Bevil

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German bliven, from Old Saxon bil??an, from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?, cognate with German bleiben (“to remain”). In the sense “to become", it has replaced older vorde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bli??/, [?b?li?i], (formal) IPA^(key): /bli?v?/, [?b?li???], [?b?li??]

Verb

blive (past tense blev, past participle blevet, c bleven, plural and definite singular blevne)

1. (copulative) to become (go from one state into another, with a predicative or the preposition til (“to”); the latter is preferred with nouns if a change is implied)

2. (auxiliary) to be (used with the past participle to form the passive voice)

3. to amount (to total or evaluate)

4. (intransitive) remain (to continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity)

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bli

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian blífa, from Middle Low German bliven, from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?.

Verb

blive (present tense bliver, past tense blev or bleiv, past participle blitt, present participle blivende, imperative bliv)

1. to drown

   Synonym: drukne

References

• “blive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bliva (a infinitive)

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian blífa, from Middle Low German bliven, from ultimately Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?.

Verb

blive (present tense bliv, past tense bleiv, supine blive, past participle bliven, present participle blivande, imperative bliv)

1. (intransitive) to drown

   Synonym: drukne

   han gjekk gjennom isen og bleiv

References

• “blive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English sliven, from Old English sl?fan (“to cleave, split”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?ban? (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).

Verb

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past slove or slived, past participle sliven or slived)

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Noun

slive (plural slives)

1. (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

Related terms

• sliver

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to slip.

Verb

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.

Related terms

• sliverly

Anagrams

• Elvis, Levi's, Levis, Lévis, Viels, evils, lives, veils, vleis, vlies

Slovene

Noun

slíve

1. inflection of slíva:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural