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English
Etymology
Pseudo-archaic formation from lit + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
litten
- (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.
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
litten
- inflection of leiden:
- first/third-person plural preterite
- first/third-person plural subjunctive II