tuit
English edit
Etymology edit
A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.
Noun edit
tuit (plural tuits)
- (humorous) Synonym of round tuit
- 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:
- THIS IS A TUIT
- 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.org>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <3a2ed57b.471201@news.earthlink.net>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet [2]:
- My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.
- 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <fromrarp@scottharvey.com>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <3cf2b4de.159435990@enews.newsguy.com>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet [3]:
- 1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.
- 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tuit m (plural tuits)
Derived terms edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Further origin unknown.
Noun edit
tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: tuit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
tuit
- inflection of tuiten:
Finnish edit
Verb edit
tuit
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Noun edit
tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)
- Alternative form of toit (“smoke”)
Declension edit
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Verb edit
tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)
- Alternative form of tit (“fall”)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tuit | thuit | dtuit |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old French edit
Adjective edit
tuit m
- nominative singular of tot (“all”)
Adverb edit
tuit
- nominative singular of tot (“all; completely”)
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
·tuit
tuit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
tuit | thuit | tuit pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
tuit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish do·tuit (“to fall”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)
- fall
- happen, befall, chance
- stumble, slip
- subside
- sink
- set (as the sun)
- benight
- be seduced by
- fail
- damp
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
tuit | thuit |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “tuit”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 do-tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Orthographically adapted by the Fundación del Español Urgente for the English-borrowed word to have a more Hispanic form rather than the English one. Added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española in 2015.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tuit m (plural tuits)
- (computing) tweet (post on Twitter)
- 2019 February 6, Elvira Guillén, “Premios Oscar sin anfitrión”, in Teleradio América Noticias[5]:
- En diciembre, el comediante Kevin Hart declinó una oferta de la Academia para presentar los Oscar debido a una controversia que se desató por unos tuits homofóbicos de hace una década.
- In December, the comedian Kevin Hart declined an offer from the Academy to host the Oscars due to a controversy sparked by some homophobic tweets from a decade ago.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tuit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014