hit
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
hit
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).
VerbEdit
hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)
- (heading, physical) To strike.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- One boy hit the other.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves:
- He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 15]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Bello: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
Bello: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell […]
- 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game:
- I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- The ball hit the fence.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
- a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
- 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance:
- Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
- If bodies be extension alone, […] how can they move and hit one against another?
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- Hit the Enter key to continue.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
- 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
- FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
- (figurative, transitive, intransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- Their coffee really hits the spot.
- I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- I hit the jackpot.
- Antonym: miss
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
- We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
- (heading) To attain, to achieve.
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- The movie hits theaters in December.
- The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
- We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
- 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, in Guardian Unlimited[1]:
- And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
- 1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, lines 1–2, page 3:
- All Human Race wou'd fain be Wits, / And Millions miſs, for one that hits.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Thou hast hit it.
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- The economy was hit by a recession. The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- 2016 March 3, Nick Gass, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump on small hands: 'I guarantee you there's no problem'”, in Politico[2]:
- I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?
- (heading, games) To make a play.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- Hit me.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- Jones hit for the pitcher.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- I'd hit that!
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown[3], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
- Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) to work out
- With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
SynonymsEdit
- (administer a blow): beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (kill a person): bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
- (attack): beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
- (have sex with): bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (smoke marijuana): smoke up, toke
- (work out): hit the gym
AntonymsEdit
- (manage to touch in the right place): miss
Derived termsEdit
- a hit dog will holler
- don't let the door hit you on the way out
- flood-hit (adjective)
- hard-hitting
- hit a brick wall
- hit a home run
- hit a lick
- hit a nerve
- hit a raw nerve
- hit a six
- hit a snag
- hit a wall
- hit above one's weight
- hit and run
- hit at
- hit back
- hit below one's weight
- hit for six
- hit hard
- hit home
- hit it
- hit it and quit it
- hit it big
- hit it off
- hit it up
- hit licks
- hit like a ton of bricks
- hit like a truck
- hit me
- hit off
- hit off the line
- hit on
- hit on all cylinders
- hit one hard
- hit one out of the ball park
- hit one out of the ballpark
- hit one's marks
- hit one's straps
- hit one's stride
- hit out
- hit out of the park
- hit pause
- hit paydirt
- hit rock bottom
- hit someone when they are down
- hit the ball twice
- hit the big time
- hit the board
- hit the books
- hit the bottle
- hit the bricks
- hit the buffers
- hit the ceiling
- hit the deck
- hit the dirt
- hit the fan
- hit the gas
- hit the ground running
- hit the gym
- hit the hay
- hit the head
- hit the headlines
- hit the high notes
- hit the jackpot
- hit the mark
- hit the nail on the head
- hit the net
- hit the pan
- hit the pavement
- hit the rack
- hit the road
- hit the rock
- hit the rocks
- hit the roof
- hit the sack
- hit the sauce
- hit the sheets
- hit the shelves
- hit the shops
- hit the silk
- hit the skids
- hit the spot
- hit the stores
- hit the streets
- hit the trail
- hit the wall
- hit them licks
- hit too close to home
- hit two targets with one arrow
- hit up
- hit upon
- hit wicket
- hit with
- hit-and-miss
- hit-skip
- hitman
- hittable
- hitter
- hitting
- hitting partner
- it's the hit dog that howls
- let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
- look like a bomb has hit it
- mis-hit
- not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
- not hit a cow's arse with a banjo
- not know what hit one
- pinch-hit
- switch-hitting
- the rubber hits the road
- who-hit-John
TranslationsEdit
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NounEdit
hit (plural hits)
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.
- The hit was very slight.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- 1848, “Her Majesty's Theatre”, in The Musical World[4], volume 23:
- Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season […]
- 2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[5]:
- Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
- But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- Where am I going to get my next hit?
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- a happy hit
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
- What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- banjo hit
- base hit
- bong hit
- critical hit
- cult hit
- direct hit
- extra base hit
- gallery hit
- hard hit
- hit and giggle
- hit counter
- hit list
- hit man
- hit parade
- hit piece
- hit point
- hit squad
- hit test
- hit-by-pitch
- hit-out
- hit-up
- hitmaker
- infield hit
- king hit
- king-hit
- nervous hit
- no hit
- no-hit wonder
- one-hit kill
- one-hit wonder
- orchestra hit
- pinch hit
- sacrifice hit
- safe hit
- scratch hit
- sleeper hit
- smash hit
- straight hit
- switch hit
- take a hit
- turntable hit
- two-hit wonder
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
hit (not comparable)
- Very successful.
- The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it. Note 'it.
PronounEdit
hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)
- (dialectal) It.
- 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
- But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
- 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
- Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
- 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- hit at OneLook Dictionary Search
- hit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
AnagramsEdit
Alemannic GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old High German hiutu, from hiu + tagu, a calque of Latin hodie. Cognate with German heute, Dutch heden.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
hit
- (Alsatian) today
- Hit isch dr Jean-Pierre so drüri. ― Jean-Pierre is so sad today.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit m (plural hits)
- hit (something very successful)
- Synonym: èxit
- 2020 February 6, Time Out Barcelona[6], volume 583, page 8, column Sèries:
- Us passareu els capítols amb el Shazam obert buscant els hits que sonen.
- You'll spend the episodes with Shazam open, searching for the hits that play.
ReferencesEdit
ChamorroEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
hit
Usage notesEdit
- hit is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while ta is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
- In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, hit can be used as a subject.
See alsoEdit
hu-type pronouns | |||
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singular | plural inclusive | plural exclusive | |
1st person | hu | ta | in |
2nd person | un | en | |
3rd person | ha | ma | |
yoʼ-type pronouns | |||
singular | plural inclusive | plural exclusive | |
1st person | yoʼ | hit | ham |
2nd person | hao | hamyo | |
3rd person | gueʼ | siha | |
emphatic pronouns | |||
singular | plural inclusive | plural exclusive | |
1st person | guahu | hita | hami |
2nd person | hagu | hamyo | |
3rd person | guiya | siha |
ReferencesEdit
- Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar[7], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
ChineseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
hit
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit m
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit n (singular definite hittet, plural indefinite hit or hits)
- hit (something very successful)
InflectionEdit
Further readingEdit
- “hit” in Den Danske Ordbog
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
hit m (plural hits, diminutive hitje n)
- A hit song, a very popular and successful song.
- (by extension) A success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry).
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Shortening of Hitlander (“Shetlander”).
NounEdit
hit m (plural hitten, diminutive hitje n or hitske n)
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
hit m (plural hits)
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From hisz (“to believe”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit (plural hitek)
- faith, belief
- (archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | hit | hitek |
accusative | hitet | hiteket |
dative | hitnek | hiteknek |
instrumental | hittel | hitekkel |
causal-final | hitért | hitekért |
translative | hitté | hitekké |
terminative | hitig | hitekig |
essive-formal | hitként | hitekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | hitben | hitekben |
superessive | hiten | hiteken |
adessive | hitnél | hiteknél |
illative | hitbe | hitekbe |
sublative | hitre | hitekre |
allative | hithez | hitekhez |
elative | hitből | hitekből |
delative | hitről | hitekről |
ablative | hittől | hitektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
hité | hiteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
hitéi | hitekéi |
Possessive forms of hit | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | hitem | hiteim |
2nd person sing. | hited | hiteid |
3rd person sing. | hite | hitei |
1st person plural | hitünk | hiteink |
2nd person plural | hitetek | hiteitek |
3rd person plural | hitük | hiteik |
Derived termsEdit
- hitágazat
- hitbizomány
- hitbuzgalom
- hitbuzgó
- hitehagyott
- hitelv
- hiteszegett
- hitélet
- hitfelekezet
- hithirdető
- hithű
- hithűség
- hitigazság
- hitközség
- hitlevél
- hitoktatás
- hitoktató
- hitrege
- hitrendszer
- hitsorsos
- hitszabadság
- hitszegő
- hitszónok
- hittagadás
- hittan
- hittanár
- hitterjesztés
- hittérítés
- hittérítő
- hittétel
- hittudomány
- hittudós
- hitújítás
- hitújító
- hitvallás
- hitvalló
- hitváltoztatás
- hitvédelem
- hitvédő
- hitvilág
- hitvita
- hitvitázó
Further readingEdit
- hit 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
LashiEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
hit
DeterminerEdit
hit
ReferencesEdit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[8], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
LimburgishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch hit, from English hit.
NounEdit
hit f
- (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)
Usage notesEdit
Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.
InflectionEdit
Root singular | Root plural | Diminutive singular | Diminutive plural | |
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Nominative | hit | hits | hitje | hitjes |
Genitive | hit | hits | hitjes | hitjes |
Locative | hittes | hitteser | hitteske | hitteskes |
Dative¹² | — | — | — | — |
Accusative¹² | — | — | — | — |
- Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
- The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.
Middle DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
hit
- Alternative form of het
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English hit, from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
hit (accusative hit, genitive hit, his, possessive determiner hit, his)
- Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
- Sometimes used in reference to a child or man: he, she
- Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
- Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
- (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it
- c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 4, recto, lines 3-4; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne[9], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 6:
- Hit bi fel in þat foreſt · þere faſt by ſide / þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherde
- It so happened that right there in that forest / there was a very old peasant; a cowherd.
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
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singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 |
min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 |
þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 |
him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo |
hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 |
his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 |
hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
DeterminerEdit
hit (nominative pronoun hit)
- Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it
ReferencesEdit
- “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.
Min NanEdit
For pronunciation and definitions of hit – see 彼 (“that; those; he; she; it; etc.”). (This character, hit, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 彼.) |
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
hit
ReferencesEdit
- “hit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.
AdverbEdit
hit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse hít. Compare Faroese hít (“condom”).
NounEdit
hit f (definite singular hita, indefinite plural hiter, definite plural hitene)
- a leather bag (usually made from a hide in a single piece)
- (dialectal, derogatory) used of a woman, especially in compounds
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
Old DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *hit.
PronounEdit
hit
Alternative formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Middle Dutch: het
Further readingEdit
- “hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, “it”). More at hē.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
hit n (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)
DeclensionEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | |||
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singular | first person | iċ | mec, mē | mē | mīn | |
second person | þū | þec, þē | þē | þīn | ||
third person | neuter | hit | him | his | ||
masculine | hē | hine | ||||
feminine | hēo | hīe | hiere | |||
dual | first person | wit | uncit | unc | uncer | |
second person | ġit | incit | inc | incer | ||
plural | first person | wē | ūsic | ūs | ūser, ūre | |
second person | ġē | ēowic | ēow | ēower | ||
third person | hīe | him | heora |
DescendantsEdit
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
ArticleEdit
hit
DeclensionEdit
Old WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *siti- (“length”).
ConjunctionEdit
hit
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English hit, from Middle English hitten, from Old English hittan, from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English hit.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit m (plural hits)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “hit” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
hit n (plural hituri)
- hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)
DeclensionEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit m (plural hits)
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Swedish hit, from *hī+at.
- hī, from Proto-Indo-European *kei- (as in Ancient Greek ἐκεῖ (ekeî))
- at, from Proto-Germanic *at, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (as in Swedish åt)
Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
hit (not comparable)
- here; to here, hither
- Antonym: dit (“to there, thither”)
- Jag kom hit igår
- I came here ("to here") yesterday
Related termsEdit
- här (“here, as a location”)
- hitåt (“towards here, this way”)
- hit och dit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hit | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hit | hitten | hittar | hittarna |
Genitive | hits | hittens | hittars | hittarnas |
VolapükEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English heat. Compare German Hitze.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hit (nominative plural hits)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- hitüp (“summer”)