loten ling.

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Does somebody know anything about Middle English? This word is from it and I can't find anything, matching the context :( ....:

" Paul told me, that in Middle English there was a word, meaning
moonlight bright enough to see by. Loten, or some such thing. Poets started using it: silver fish, gleaming from the water was loten, pretty, sad girl had loten eyes. Paul himself remembered it just because we listened to music once, and he needed a word to describe Alegri Miserere..."

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