itt
English
Pronoun
itt
- Obsolete spelling of it
- 1657, October 3, William Clarke, Letters from Flanders; reprinted in:
- 1899: William Clarke and Charles Harding Firth [ed.], The Clarke Papers: Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647–1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651–1660, page 120 (Camden Society)
- Itt hath indeed bin intended by the French army to lay siege to […] and in order thereunto a conquest hath bin made of the sconce Mardyk, which did nott indure siege above 2 dayes before itt yielded uppon discretion,1 but since the taking thereof the resolution of beseiging Dunkirk beginneth to slacken, and I suppose will bee quitte layd aside for this […]
Hungarian
Etymology
Lexicalization of the earlier i variant of the e demonstrative pronoun + -tt (locative suffix).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈitː]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -itː
Adverb
itt (not comparable)
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions
References
- itt in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- itt in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
Further reading
- itt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Middle English
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