English

alt-lit

From alt- + lit.

Formed from alt- + lit

Latin alternātus ‘alternated, vacillated’

Latin alternātīvus ‘alternating’

Middle French alternatif

English alternative

English alt-

Proto-Indo-European *wel- ‘to see’

Proto-Germanic *wlitiz ‘countenance, face’

Old Norse litr ‘colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance’

Middle English lit

English lit

Today it means

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