brit
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From 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 edit
Verb edit
brit (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 edit
Etymology 2 edit
Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.
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Noun edit
brit (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 edit
Short for brit milah.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
brit (plural brits)
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Gheg 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 edit
brit f
Derived terms edit
Hungarian edit
Alternative forms edit
- britt (archaic, nonstandard)
Etymology edit
From German Brite, from Latin Brītō̆nēs.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
brit (not comparable)
Declension edit
| Inflection (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 |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
brit (plural britek)
Declension edit
| Inflection (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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
References edit
- ^ brit in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)