lit

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

From Middle English lihte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterit of līhtan (“to light”). More at light.

lit

1. simple past tense and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
2. simple past tense and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
   • 1896, Florence Merriam Bailey, A-birding on a Bronco, page 87:

     […] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (US, dialectal) To run or light (alight).
   • 1988, April 8, “Grant Pick”, in Johnny Washington's Life‎:

     With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!

lit (comparative more lit, superlative most lit)

1. Illuminated.

   He walked down the lit corridor.

2. (slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned.
3. (slang) Sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused.
4. (slang) Excellent, fantastic; captivating.

   We ordered pizza and we're going to stay up all night. It's going to be lit.

• (illuminated): lighted, luminous; see also Thesaurus:illuminated or Thesaurus:shining
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:stoned or Thesaurus:drunk
• (sexually aroused): See Thesaurus:randy
• (excellent): See Thesaurus:excellent

• half lit

From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.

lit (comparative litter or more lit, superlative littest or most lit)

1. (obsolete) Little.

lit (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Little.

• lite

From Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).

lit (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal) Colour; blee; dye; stain.

• lithouse
• litmus

From Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

1. (transitive) To colour; dye.

Short for literature.

lit (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of literature.

• chick lit
• lit crit
• litfan
• misery lit

• 'til, TIL, TLI, til

From the verb líta (‘to view’)

• IPA^(key): [liːt]

lit n (genitive singular lits, uncountable)

1. short wink, view, look

• eygnabrá (wink)

• andlit (face)
• álit (trust)
• eftirlit (control)
• fyrilit (caution)
• innlit (insight)
• útlit (outlook)
• yvirlit (overview, summary)

From Latin lectus.

• IPA^(key): /li/

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lit m (plural lits)

1. bed

   Où est-il? Il dort dans son lit.

   Where is he? He's sleeping in his bed.

• lit de justice
• lit de sangle

lit

1. third-person singular present indicative of lire

   Jean lit très souvent. - Jean reads very often.

• “lit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

lit

1. indefinite accusative singular of litur
2. indefinite dative singular of litur

lit

1. air

• https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf

lit (plural *lits)

1. Alternative form of light

• “light (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

lit m (plural lits)

1. Alternative form of llit (“bed”)

• IPA^(key): /liːt/

From Old Norse hlít

lit f (definite singular lita, uncountable)
lit m (definite singular liten, uncountable)

1. trust

   Eg set min lit til Gud.

   I put my trust in God.

lit

1. present tense of lita and lite
2. imperative of lita and lite

• “lit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin lectus.

• IPA^(key): /lit/

lit m (oblique plural liz or litz, nominative singular liz or litz, nominative plural lit)

1. bed

lit n

1. vision

• líta (“to see”)

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lit.

• til

• IPA^(key): /lʲit/

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lit m inan

1. lithium
2. (informal) lithium carbonate, a drug used in the treatment of bipolar disorder

lit m anim

1. litas (currency of Lithuania)

lit f

1. genitive singular of lite

lit c

1. trust

• tillit

• lita

Borrowed from German Licht and English light.

lit (plural lits)

1. light
2. illumination

lit (preterite litä or littä, supine litt or litti)

1. (transitive) trust, obey, follow someone’s advice

   Lit meg; ji val int ångerköft

   Follow my advice, you will not regret the purchase.

• litsam
• olitsam

lit (preterite litä)

1. (intransitive) be expensive, heavy; strain

   Hä lit på tulumodä

   It tries the patience.

lit

1. tree-bark

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind