lissen

English

Etymology 1

Unknown

Alternative forms

• lissom
• lisne

Noun

lissen (plural lissens).

1. (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

A respelling of listen.

Verb

lissen (third-person singular simple present lissens, present participle lissening, simple past and past participle lissened)

1. Eye dialect spelling of listen.

Maltese

Root
l-s-n
8 terms

Etymology

From Arabic لَسَّنَ (lassana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs.sɛn/

Verb

lissen (imperfect jlissen, past participle mlissen, verbal noun tilsin)

1. to utter

Conjugation

Conjugation of lissen
		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