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See also: Brit, Brit., Brit-, and břit

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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).

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Verb

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brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)

  1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
  2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
  3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
  4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
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Etymology 2

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Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

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Noun

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brit (plural brit)

  1. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
  2. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.

Etymology 3

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Short for brit milah.

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Noun

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brit (plural brits)

  1. brit milah

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Etymology

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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

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brit f

  1. scream, yell

Derived terms

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Hungarian

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 Nagy-Britannia on Hungarian Wikipedia
 Brit-sziget on Hungarian Wikipedia
 Britannia (provincia) on Hungarian Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • britt (archaic, nonstandard)

Etymology

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From German Brite, from Latin Brītō̆nēs.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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brit (not comparable)

  1. British

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative brit britek
accusative britet briteket
dative britnek briteknek
instrumental brittel britekkel
causal-final britért britekért
translative britté britekké
terminative britig britekig
essive-formal britként britekként
essive-modal
inessive britben britekben
superessive briten briteken
adessive britnél briteknél
illative britbe britekbe
sublative britre britekre
allative brithez britekhez
elative britből britekből
delative britről britekről
ablative brittől britektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
brité briteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
britéi britekéi

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Compound words and expressions
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Noun

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brit (plural britek)

  1. Briton, Brit

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative brit britek
accusative britet briteket
dative britnek briteknek
instrumental brittel britekkel
causal-final britért britekért
translative britté britekké
terminative britig britekig
essive-formal britként britekként
essive-modal
inessive britben britekben
superessive briten briteken
adessive britnél briteknél
illative britbe britekbe
sublative britre britekre
allative brithez britekhez
elative britből britekből
delative britről britekről
ablative brittől britektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
brité briteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
britéi britekéi
Possessive forms of brit
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. britem britjeim
2nd person sing. brited britjeid
3rd person sing. britje britjei
1st person plural britünk britjeink
2nd person plural britetek britjeitek
3rd person plural britjük britjeik

See also

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References

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  1. ^ brit in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

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  • brit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: 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).