English

ladlit

From lad + lit.

Formed from lad + lit

Old English *ladda

Middle English ladde ‘foot soldier, servant’

English lad

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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