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, chapter 7, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     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.

Derived terms

• moonlitten
• starlitten

Anagrams

• TELINT, lettin'

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

litten

1. inflection of leiden:
   1. first/third-person plural preterite
   2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II