brit

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɹɪt/ Rhymes: -ɪt === Etymology 1 === 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 ==== britt brite (dialectal) ==== Verb ==== 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 ===== britten brittle === Etymology 2 === Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret. ==== Alternative forms ==== britt ==== Noun ==== 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. === Etymology 3 === Borrowed from Hebrew בְּרִית ==== Alternative forms ==== bris ==== Noun ==== brit (plural brits) brit milah A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people. ===== Related terms ===== === Anagrams === trib, Trib, BIRT, trib., Birt, birt == Albanian == === Etymology === 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 === brit f scream, yell ==== Derived terms ==== bërtas britmë == Hungarian == === Alternative forms === britt (archaic, nonstandard) === Etymology === From German Brite, from Latin Brītō̆nēs. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbrit] Rhymes: -it === Adjective === brit (not comparable) British ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Noun === brit (plural britek) Briton, Brit ==== Declension ==== === See also === === References === === Further reading === brit in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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).