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Lie
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Appendix:Variations of "lie"
English
Etymology
From en no Lie.
Pronunciation
en aɪ 2
Proper noun
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en Norwegian.
12 April 1953 Abraham Michael Rosenthal Farewell, Diplomacy: Trygve Lie’s daughter Guri tells about staying here https://web.archive.org/web/20250817161829/https://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/12/archives/farewell-diplomacy-trygve-lies-daughter-guri-tells-about-staying.html SM 22 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1953-04-12_102_34777/page/n201/mode/1up It won’t be long now before Miss Lie starts finding out. The U. N. finally has agreed on a man to take over Trygve Lie’s title and woes. Some time in May the Lies will be packed and Oslo-bound—most of the Lies, that is, not Guri.
Usage notes
Used attributively in mathematics (topology) in en Lie group and associated terms, in reference to Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie (1842–1899).
Derived terms
en group of Lie type Lie bracket Lie algebroid Lie groupoid
Anagrams
en eil EIL ile- Eli Ile -ile lei Lei. Lei %ile ELI ile
Indonesian
Alternative forms
id Lee
Proper noun
id chiefly pre-1947 pre-1972 id Li a Chinese Indonesian surname of Hokkien origin
Norwegian
Proper noun
no proper noun
no