brit
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).
Alternative forms
editVerb
editbrit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)
- (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
- (transitive) To bruise; indent.
- (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
- (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editProbably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.
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editNoun
editbrit (plural brit)
- One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
- One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.
Etymology 3
editShort for brit milah.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editbrit (plural brits)
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editAlbanian
editEtymology
editGheg word. From Proto-Albanian *breita, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to pierce, cut with something sharp”). Cognate to Lithuanian bárti (“to scold, chide”), Old Irish briathar (“argument”), Old Church Slavonic брати (brati, “fight”), Welsh brwydr (“fight, struggle”).
Noun
editbrit f
Derived terms
editHungarian
editAlternative forms
edit- britt (archaic, nonstandard)
Etymology
editFrom German Brite, from Latin Brītō̆nēs.[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editbrit (not comparable)
Declension
editInflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | brit | britek |
accusative | britet | briteket |
dative | britnek | briteknek |
instrumental | brittel | britekkel |
causal-final | britért | britekért |
translative | britté | britekké |
terminative | britig | britekig |
essive-formal | britként | britekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | britben | britekben |
superessive | briten | briteken |
adessive | britnél | briteknél |
illative | britbe | britekbe |
sublative | britre | britekre |
allative | brithez | britekhez |
elative | britből | britekből |
delative | britről | britekről |
ablative | brittől | britektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
brité | briteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
britéi | britekéi |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editNoun
editbrit (plural britek)
Declension
editInflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | brit | britek |
accusative | britet | briteket |
dative | britnek | briteknek |
instrumental | brittel | britekkel |
causal-final | britért | britekért |
translative | britté | britekké |
terminative | britig | britekig |
essive-formal | britként | britekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | britben | britekben |
superessive | briten | briteken |
adessive | britnél | briteknél |
illative | britbe | britekbe |
sublative | britre | britekre |
allative | brithez | britekhez |
elative | britből | britekből |
delative | britről | britekről |
ablative | brittől | britektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
brité | briteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
britéi | britekéi |
Possessive forms of brit | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | britem | britjeim |
2nd person sing. | brited | britjeid |
3rd person sing. | britje | britjei |
1st person plural | britünk | britjeink |
2nd person plural | britetek | britjeitek |
3rd person plural | britjük | britjeik |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ brit in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
edit- brit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- brit in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
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