smit

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

smit

1. Alternative spelling of smitt

See smittle.

smit (third-person singular simple present smits, present participle smitting, simple past and past participle smitted)

1. (transitive, UK, obsolete, dialect) To infect.

smit (plural smits)

1. (UK, obsolete, dialect) An infection.
2. (UK, obsolete, dialect) A stain.

• smittle

smit

1. (obsolete, rare) simple past tense and past participle of smite
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Ne yeelded foote, ne once abacke did flit,
     But, being doubly smitten, likewise doubly smit

   • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], OCLC 228757725:

     smit with the beauty of so fair a scene

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, stim

• smitt (Luserna)

From Old High German smid, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz. Cognate with German Schmied, Dutch smid, English smith.

smit m

1. (Tredici Comuni, Sette Comuni) smith

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /smɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

smit n (genitive singular smits, no plural)

1. (pathology) infection

• smita (“to infect”)

From Old Dutch *smith

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

smit m (stem smed-)

1. smith

• smet

• Dutch: smid
  • Afrikaans: smid
  • Negerhollands: smid
  • → Munsee: shumát
  • → Papiamentu: smet, smid
  • → Sranan Tongo: smeti, smitti
    • → Saramaccan: simítima
  • → Unami: shëmìt, shmìt
• Limburgish: smeid, smieëd

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

From Old Norse smíta, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną.

smit

1. To quickly or as by chance put or throw something in any place or into something.

   hä går hȯrä hä will men jag smitä dit a jag

   Whichever way it goes I threw it there anyway.

• smisk

• smong

From Middle Low German smîte.

smit f

1. The loop at the end of a net or a fishnet, by which one net is attached to the other when netting.
2. The very end of the net.

   stor fisskjen sȧt yterst på smita

   The big fish sat at the end of the net