guit

Catalan

Etymology

From Frankish *wiht (“thing, creature”). Cognate with English wight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡit]

Adjective

guit (feminine guita, masculine plural guits, feminine plural guites)

1. bucking, that kicks (of a horse or mule)

Derived terms

• guitar

Related terms

• guitza

Further reading

• “guit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch guyte, probably from ghoiten (“to berate”), gu(i)ten (“to make fun of”), possibly from Old Norse gautan (“drivel”), gauta (“to talk a lot”), connected with Old High German gauzen, gäuzen (“to namecall”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to yawn, gape”). Doublet of geus.

Also compared is Norwegian gutt (“boy”), but this could be a reverse borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣœy̯t/

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• Hyphenation: guit
• Rhymes: -œy̯t

Noun

guit m (plural guiten, diminutive guitje n)

1. tomboy, rascal, joker, troublemaker

   De guit krijgt een spuit. ― The rascal receives an injection.

Synonyms

• deugniet, kapoen, schalk

Derived terms

• guitig

Descendants

• Italian: guitto

References

• Études germaniques, Volume 61 (2006)
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guit”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1259”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1259

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡit/

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Noun

guit f (plural guits)

1. (colloquial, Quebec) guitar