dit

• enPR: dĭt, IPA^(key): /dɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

From Middle English ditten, dütten, from Old English dyttan (“to stop up, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *duttijan, from Proto-Germanic *duttijaną, from *duttaz (“wisp”), akin to Icelandic dytta. Related to Old English dott (“dot, point”). More at dot.

dit (third-person singular simple present dits, present participle ditting, simple past and past participle ditted)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
2. (obsolete) To close up.
   • 1599, James VI and I, Basilikon Doron

     that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus

• dottle

Variant of dite.

dit (plural dits)

1. (obsolete, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit: / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].

2. (obsolete) A word; a decree.

Imitative.

dit (plural dits)

1. The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

• dah

Shortening.

dit (plural dits)

1. (information theory) decimal digit

From French dit (“called”). Doublet of ditto.

dit (not comparable)

1. (Canada, obsolete) Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.

• on dit

• DTI, IDT, TDI, TID, it'd, tid

• 't (Cape Afrikaans)

From Dutch dit (“this”), from Middle Dutch dit, from Old Dutch thit.

• IPA^(key): /dət/

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dit (possessive sy)

1. it, this, that (subject and object)
   1. referring to the context

      Dit lyk baie moeilik.

      It seems very difficult.

   2. referring to something seen or heard in the real world

      Dit is ’n huis. ― This is a house.

   3. referring to non-personal singular nouns

      Sy het my die boek gegee, maar ek het dit nog nie gelees nie.

      She gave me the book, but I haven’t read it yet.

• Dit is is commonly contracted to dis, both in speech and writing: Dis 'n huis.

• (referring to something seen or heard): hierdie; daardie (both more demonstrative)
• (referring to non-personal singulars): hy, hom

• dis

• die, dié

• ditu, ditru, din

From Latin de-inter.

dit

1. from

• dintrã
• ditrã

dit

1. second-person singular of da

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdit/
• Rhymes: -it

From Latin digitus. Doublet of dígit. Cognate with Occitan det and dit, French doigt, Spanish dedo and dígito, Portuguese dedo and dígito, and Galician dedo.

dit m (plural dits)

1. finger, toe
2. fingerbreadth

   tres o quatre dits d'ample

   three or four finger(breadth)s wide

From Latin dictus.

dit m (feminine dida, masculine plural dits, feminine plural dides)

1. past participle of dir

• dita

• “dit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

dit (common din, plural dine)

1. (possessive) neuter singular of din

From Middle Dutch dit, from Old Dutch thit. Cognate with German dies.

• IPA^(key): /dɪt/

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• Hyphenation: dit
• Rhymes: -ɪt

dit

1. this (neuter); referring to a thing or a person closer by.

   dit huis

   this house

   dit kind

   this child

• ditmaal

• Afrikaans: dit
• Jersey Dutch: dit

dit n

1. (demonstrative) this, this here

   Wat is dit?

   What is this?

This pronoun can combine with a preposition to form a pronominal adverb. When this occurs, it is changed into its adverbial/locative counterpart hier. See also Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs.

• IPA^(key): /di/

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From Old French dit, from Latin dictus.

dit (feminine dite, masculine plural dits, feminine plural dites)

1. past participle of dire

   Il a dit son nom. ― He said his name.

2. (in names) Indicating a surname used as a family name.

From Latin dīcit, third-person singular present active indicative of dīcō.

dit

1. inflection of dire:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular past historic

   « Je m'appelle Paul, » dit-il. ― “My name is Paul,” he said.

• “dit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin dictus, dictum.

dit

1. past participle of dî

dit

1. said

dit m (plural dits)

1. saying, maxim

• düt

• IPA^(key): /dɪt/, /dʏt/

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dit

1. (colloquial, regional, north-eastern Germany, including Berlin) Synonym of das

   Kann man dit irgendwie ändern?

   Can this be changed somehow?

   Wie oft muss ick ’n dir dit noch sagen?

   How many times do I have to tell you this?

dit

1. (law enforcement) Clipping of direktorat (“directorate”).

From French dire (“to tell”), compare Haitian Creole di.

dit

1. to tell

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

• düt

dit n

1. this

• disse (dissen)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dit

1. this

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dit

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of dese

• “dit”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “dit”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

dit

1. (Sylt) the (definite article for singular neuter nouns)

• di (Sylt; common gender singular)
• dåt (Mooring; neuter gender singular)

dit

1. to that place; thither

• det

From Latin digitus.

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dit m (plural dits)

1. finger

From Latin dictum.

dit m (oblique plural diz or ditz, nominative singular diz or ditz, nominative plural dit)

1. word
2. story; tale

• conte
• lai

From Latin dictus.

dit

1. past participle of dire
2. third-person singular present indicative of dire
3. third-person singular past historic of dire

• French: dit

• dyt
• ditt

From Early Scots ditt or dyt, from Old English dyttan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪt/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪʔ/

dit (third-person singular simple present dits, present participle ditin, simple past ditt, past participle ditt)

1. to close (especially of a door or mouth)
2. to block or stop up (of an opening)
3. to obstruct, especially from view
4. to darken or dim (in the sense of obscuring light)
5. of the sun: to sink or to be obscured by clouds

From Old Swedish þit, from Old Norse þít, according to SAOB likely from þí + at. þí is in turn an old locative, possibly related to Gothic 𐌸𐌴𐌹 (þei), and more distantly to Ancient Greek τεῖ (teî) in τεῖδε (teîde, “thither”). Equivalent to ty + åt.

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dit (not comparable)

1. there; to there, thither

   Antonym: hit (“to here, hither”)

   Jag har aldrig varit i London, men jag ska dit snart

   I've never been to London, but I'm going there ("to there") soon

• där (“there, as a location”)
• ditåt (“that way”)
• ty
• vart

• tid

dit

1. neuter singular of dizze