Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To create or recite a list. · To place in listings. · To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. · To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
Etymology tree Old English līste Old French listeder. Medieval Latin listader. Middle English lī̆st English list From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”) * Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”) * German Low German Liest (“edging, border”) * German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”) * Swedish lista (“list”) * Icelandic lista listi (“list”) * Italian lista (“list; strip”) * Portuguese lista (“list”) * Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”) * Galician lista (“band, strip; list”) * Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionlistenm
- Inherited-form mentionlīsteang
- Derivation mentionlistefro
- Inherited-form mention*līstāgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*leys-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionLiestestq · margin, strip, list
- Cognate mentionlijstnl · picture frame, list
- Cognate mentionLeistede · strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar
- Cognate mentionlistasv
- Cognate mentionlistais
- Cognate mentionlistait
- Cognate mentionlistapt
- Cognate mentionlistaes
- Cognate mentionlistagl
- Cognate mentionlistafi
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