liehtan

• lȳhtan — Late West Saxon
• līhtan — Anglian, Late West Saxon

• IPA^(key): /ˈli͜yːx.tɑn/

From Proto-West Germanic *liuhtijan, from Proto-Germanic *liuhtijaną, from the Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to shine, bright, to see”). Cognate with Old High German liuhten (German leuchten).

līehtan (West Saxon)

1. to shine; illuminate, glow, light

• ġeondlīehtan
• inlīehtan

• Middle English: lihten, lighten
  • English: light
  • Scots: licht

From Proto-West Germanic *lį̄htijan, from Proto-Germanic *linhtijaną. Cognate with Old Frisian lichta, Old High German līhten, Old Norse létta.

līehtan (West Saxon)

1. to make light or easy, lighten, alleviate, relieve of burden
2. to descend, light, alight

• ālīehtan
• ġelīehtan

• Middle English: lihten, liȝten, lighten
  • English: light
  • Scots: licht

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “líhtan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1)
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “líhtan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2)