lissen
English
editEtymology 1
editUnknown.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editlissen (plural lissens).
- (dialect) A cleft or hollow in rock.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.
- 1677, Robert Plot, The natural history of Oxford-shire:
- Beside these, we have another fine Earth, of a white colour, porous and friable, insipid and without scent, dissoluble in water; and tinging it, of a milky colour, and somtimes raising a kind of ebullition in it; found frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks, or sticking to the hollow roofs of them: in short, so altogether agreeable to what Conradus Gesner calls Lac Lunae, that I could not but think it the very same.
Etymology 2
editA respelling of listen.
Verb
editlissen (third-person singular simple present lissens, present participle lissening, simple past and past participle lissened)
- Eye dialect spelling of listen.
Anagrams
editMaltese
editRoot |
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l-s-n |
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Etymology
editFrom Arabic لَسَّنَ (lassana).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editlissen (imperfect jlissen, past participle mlissen, verbal noun tilsin)
- to utter
Conjugation
editConjugation of lissen | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | lissint | lissint | lissen | lissinna | lissintu | lissnu | |
f | lissnet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nlissen | tlissen | jlissen | nlissnu | tlissnu | jlissnu | |
f | tlissen | |||||||
imperative | lissen | lissnu |
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