nipt
See also: NIPT
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
nipt
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of nip
- 1852, James Rennie, George Glenny, The flower garden, its arrangement, cultivation and general management, page 61:
- […] the young shoots of the still hardier ivy, nipt and destroyed by an accidental night's frost in the early summer.
Anagrams edit
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Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
nipt (not comparable)
Inflection edit
Inflection of nipt | ||||
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uninflected | nipt | |||
inflected | nipte | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | nipt | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | nipte | ||
n. sing. | nipt | |||
plural | nipte | |||
definite | nipte | |||
partitive | nipts |
Verb edit
nipt
- inflection of nippen:
Adverb edit
nipt
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *niftiz (“female relative”).
Noun edit
nipt f (genitive niptar)
- female relative, kinswoman; sister; daughter
- nipt ok dísi nú mun ek telja: Snót, brúðr, svanni, svarri, sprakki, fljóð, sprund, kona, feima, ekkja, rýgr, víf ok drós, ristill, sæta, man, svarkr ok hæll, mær ok kerling.
- [terms for] kinswomen and ladies will I now name: Gentlewoman, bride, lady, proud lady, spark, woman, dame, female, sweet thing, widow, housewife, wife and sweetheart, slender lady, matron, bondswoman, haughty one and war-widow, maiden and old lady. (Nafnaþulur, kvenna heiti)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: nift
References edit
- “nipt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cleasby, Vigfusson (1874) An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 455