smit

smit

See also: Smit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

Noun

smit

1. Alternative spelling of smitt

Etymology 2

See smittle.

Verb

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

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

Noun

smit (plural smits)

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

Related terms

• smittle

Verb

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

Anagrams

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

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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• smitt (Luserna)

Etymology

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

Noun

smit m

1. (Tredici Comuni, Sette Comuni) smith

References

• 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

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

Noun

smit n (genitive singular smits, no plural)

1. (pathology) infection

Declension

declension of smit

n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	smit	smitið
accusative	smit	smitið
dative	smiti	smitinu
genitive	smits	smitsins

Related terms

• smita (“to infect”)

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *smith

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

Noun

smit m (stem smed-)

1. smith

Inflection

Declension of smit (strong)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	smit	smede
accusative	smit	smede
genitive	smits	smede
dative	smit	smeden

Alternative forms

• smet

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• smisk

See also

• smong

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German smîte.

Noun

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