Old English · suffix
-liest
Normalised -līest
- Part of speech
- suffix, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /li͜yːst/
- Syllables
- li͜yːst (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- lessness-lessabsence
Meaning
-
suffix denoting lack, want or absence of: -lessness
metelīest
lack of food, foodlessness
Declension
All forms (2)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *-lausiþu; By surface analysis, -lēas (“-less”) + -t (“-th; -ness”).
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