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lit (n.1)
"color, hue, dye," early 12c., from Old Norse
litr
"color," from Proto-Germanic
*wlitiz
(cf. Old English
wlite
"brightness, beauty," Old Frisian
wlite
"exterior, form," Gothic
*wlits
"face, form").
lit (adj.)
from past participle of
light
(v.2). Slang meaning "drunk" is recorded from 1914.
lit (n.2)
colloquial shortening of
literature
, attested by 1850.