different between litten vs glitten

English

Etymology

Pseudo-archaic formation from lit +? -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

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.

Derived terms

• moonlitten
• starlitten

Anagrams

• TELINT, lettin'

German

Pronunciation

Verb

litten

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

English

Etymology 1

Blend of glove +? mitten.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??l?tn?/
• Rhymes: -?t?n
• Hyphenation: glit?ten

Noun

glitten (plural glittens)

1. A cross between a glove and a mitten, often in the form of a fingerless glove with an attached mitten-like flap that can be used to cover the fingers.

Etymology 2

From Middle English glitenen, from Old English glitnian, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *glitin?n?, from a root cognate with Old Norse glitra + Proto-Germanic *-in?n?. Ultimately from *??el- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Related to Old English glisnian (“to glisten”), Old English gl?dan (“to glide”). Largely diplaced by glitter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??l?tn?/
• Rhymes: -?t?n
• Hyphenation: glit?ten

Verb

glitten (third-person singular simple present glittens, present participle glittening, simple past and past participle glittened)

1. (archaic, dialecical) to glisten, to reflect, to shimmer.
   • c. 1900, George Tobias Flom, Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch:

     Glete, gleit, vb, to glitter. Douglas, I, 33; II, 88, 16; Montg. C. and S., 1288; Dunbar, G. T., 66, O. N. glita, to glitter, Dan. glitte, Cp. Shetland glid, a glittering object. O. E. glitnian > M. E. glitenien, as O. E. glisnian > M. E. glistnian, N. Eng. glisten. The M. E. glitenian (N. Eng. *glitten) was replaced by the Scand. glitter.

Anagrams

• ettling, letting

German

Verb

glitten

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