litten

See also: Litten

English

Etymology

Pseudo-archaic formation from lit + -en.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪtən

Verb

litten

  1. (archaic) past participle of light
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 7:
      They’ve been inside the earth, too—there are openings which human beings know nothing of—some of them in these very Vermont hills—and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten K’n-yan, red-litten Yoth, and black, lightless N’kai.

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German

Verb

litten

  1. First-person plural preterite of leiden.
  2. Third-person plural preterite of leiden.
  3. First-person plural subjunctive II of leiden.
  4. Third-person plural subjunctive II of leiden.
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