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[Appendix:Variations of "lit"]
** Translingual
*** Symbol
[mul-symbol]
1. [2&3]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
Alteration of earlier [en], from [en], from [en], first and third person
singular preterite of [ang], by analogy with [en]. More at [en]; compare
[en].
This form was proscribed during the 18th and 19th centuries, with [en] being
preferred,[1] but is now the most common past form of [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
2. [en]
3. * [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To run or light ( alight ).
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=1988 April 8 | author=Grant Pick | title=Johnny Washington's Life | journal=Chicago Reader | url=https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1988/880408/WSHNGTN
|passage=With that the kid LITS off down the street, and, what do you know!}}
**** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. [illuminated] .
2. [en] [drunk] , intoxicated ; under the influence of drug s or alcohol .
3. * 1932 , [Hart Crane] , letter, 16 February:
4. *: True to my word last night, I got very LIT .
5. [en] [sexually] aroused , [en] visibly so.
6. [en] [exciting] , captivating ; fun .
7. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2017 | author=Justin Allec; Adrian Lysenko; Kirsti Salmi | title=Sounds of the City: Part VI | journal=The Walleye | month=November | titleurl=https://issuu.com/thewalleyemagazine/docs/walleye_november_iissuu_/8 | page=8
|passage=DJ sets so LIT the dance floor's dripping with sweat?}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=James Courtney | title=Music Picks | journal=San Antonio Current | date=4 July 2018 | titleurl=https://issuu.com/euclidmediagroup/docs/18_27 | page=39
|passage=If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag,
this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be LIT.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Shan Kekahuna | title=Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! | journal=MauiTime | date=27 December 2018 | titleurl=https://issuu.com/mauitime/docs/mt_22.29 | page=17
|passage=New Year's Eve is once a year and it's gonna be LIT.}}
1. [en] [excellent] , fantastic ; cool .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | title=Out with the old, in with the new | journal=Dundrum Gazette | date=8 June 2017 | titleurl=https://issuu.com/robheigh/docs/dundrum_99f4e21a0f32c3 | page=18
|passage=[...] will keep your feet looking LIT this summer thanks to the
Trainer Exchange.}}
1. * 2019 , "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", _Art Bodega Magazine_ , December/January 2019 (see https://issuu.com/artbodegamagazine/docs/high_spreads_jamie_version-compress) :
2. *: At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very LIT and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2019 | author=Alice Ridley | title=Letter from the Editor | journal=Connect Magazine | month=October | titleurl=https://issuu.com/ajetconnect/docs/connect_october_issue_2019 | page=4
|passage=The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get
our Instagram photos looking LIT.}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[Lighted]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: excellent, cool]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [osx], [gmh].
More at [en].
**** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Little .
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Little .
***** Related terms
- [en]
*** Etymology 3
From [en], from [en], from [en], [gem-pro], from [en]. Cognate with [is],
[ang], [ang].
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Colour ; blee ; dye ; stain .
***** Derived terms
- [en] , [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 4
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [non]. See above.
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To colour ; dye .
*** Etymology 5
Short for [en].
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] [en] .
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|
|alt-lit |chick lit |comput lit |cyberlit |dick lit |frat lit |grip-lit
|kidlit |lab lit |lad lit |ladlit |mis lit |misery lit |poplit |quit lit |sick
lit |Treklit |vid lit
|litblog |lit crit |litfan |litfic |lit flick |litRPG |lit-verse |litzine
}}
*** References
References:
[1]. [Lit]
*** See also
- wagon-lit [etymologically unrelated]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Czech
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
*** Participle
[cs]
1. [cs]
** Faroese
*** Etymology
From the verb _líta_ (‘to view’).
*** Pronunciation
- [fo]
*** Noun
[n]
1. short wink , view , look
**** Declension
[lit]
**** Synonyms
- [fo] (wink)
**** Derived terms
{{col|fo |andlit<t:face> |álit<t:trust> |eftirlit<t:control>
|fyrilit<t:caution> |innlit<t:insight> |útlit<t:outlook> |yvirlit<t:overview,
summary> }}
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Etymology 1
[fr], from [fr].
**** Noun
[m]
1. bed
***** Derived terms
{{col3|fr |aller au lit |au lit |cloué au lit |comme on fait son lit on se
couche |faire le lit |femme qui rit, à moitié dans son lit |femme qui rit, à
moitié dans ton lit |lit pliant |lit à baldaquin |lit de camp |lit de justice
|lit de mort |lit de sangle |lit superposé |mouiller son lit |punaise des lits
}}
*** Etymology 2
[nonlemma]
**** Verb
[fr]
1. [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Icelandic
*** Noun
[is]
1. [is]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Middle High German
*** Etymology
[gmh], from [gmh].
*** Pronunciation
- [gmh-IPA]
*** Noun
[g=n]
1. lid , cover
**** Declension
[n.decllemma:lid]
**** Descendants
- [de]
*** References
- [id=L01048]
** Norman
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nrf]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Pronunciation
- [no]
*** Etymology 1
From [nn].
**** Noun
[fu]
1. trust
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[nn]
1. [nn]
2. [nn]
*** Etymology 3
**** Noun
[head=lìt]
1. [let]
*** References
- [R:ND]
*** Anagrams
- [nn]
** Old French
*** Etymology
From [fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [fro]
*** Noun
[m]
1. bed
**** Descendants
- [roa-brg]
- [fr]
- [nrf]
** Old Norse
*** Etymology
[non]
*** Pronunciation
- [non]
[non]
*** Noun
[n]
1. glance
**** Related terms
- [non]
- [non]
*** Further reading
- _J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok_ (see http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi) ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on _lit_ .
*** Anagrams
- [non]
** Polish
[lang=pl] [pl] {{multiple images |direction = vertical | align = right |
total_height = 230 | image1 = Limetal.JPG | caption1 = lit [pl] | image2 =
-Lithuanian-coins.jpg | caption2 = lit [pl] }}
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-lit.ogg]
*** Etymology 1
[pl] [pl].
**** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] lithium [soft, silvery metal, the simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3]
2. [pl] lithium carbonate [lithium salt of carbonic acid, Li2CO3, used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, and medically, in the treatment of bipolar disorder]
***** Declension
[tantum=s]
*** Etymology 2
[pl].
**** Noun
[m-anml]
1. [pl] [pl] litas [former unit of currency of Lithuania]
***** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-anml]
*** Further reading
- [60692]
- [R:pl:PWN]
- [R:pl:PWN Encyclopedia]
[pl]
** Scottish Gaelic
*** Noun
[gd]
1. [gd]
** Spanish
*** Adjective
[es]
1. [es] Abbreviation of literal .
** Sumbawa
*** Noun
[smw]
1. sea
** Swedish
*** Etymology
[sv]. Compare [da].
*** Noun
[c]
1. trust
**** Synonyms
- [sv]
*** References
- [R:svenska.se]
- [svetym]
** Volapük
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [vo] and [vo].
*** Noun
[vo-noun]
1. light
2. * [vo]
3. illumination
**** Declension
[vo-decl-noun]
** Zay
*** Noun
[zwa]
1. tree- bark
*** References
- _Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area_ by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind
** Zhuang
*** Etymology
Cognate with [pcc].
*** Pronunciation
- [za-pron]
*** Noun
[noun]
1. [za] hail
[za]