syt

syt

Finnish

Noun

syt

1. Initialism of suurin yhteinen tekijä (greatest common divisor); gcd

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɨt/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɨt
• Syllabification: syt

Adjective

syt (comparative bardziej syt, superlative najbardziej syt)

1. Dated form of syty.

Declension

Declension of syt

case	singular				plural
	masculine personal/animate	masculine inanimate	neuter	feminine	virile	nonvirile
nominative, vocative	syt		syte	syta	syci	syte
genitive	sytego			sytej	sytych
dative	sytemu				sytym
accusative	sytego	syt	syte	sytą	sytych	syte
instrumental	sytym				sytymi
locative				sytej	sytych

Further reading

• syt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• syt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sýta; compare Jamtish sytte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²syːt/, [sì͡ʷːt], [sìːt], [sʊ̀ɪ̯ːt], [sø̀͡ʷy̯͡ʷːt]

  Rhymes: -ỳːt

  (í-ý merger) Rhymes: -ỳːt, -ìːt

  (øy-ý merger) Rhymes: -ỳːt, -ø̀ʏ̯ːt

Verb

syt

1. to care for, to nurse

   syt bånom/båna

   to take care of children

2. (reflexive) proceed, behave

   Jig syt mäg no sjelvvän

   I take care of myself

Derived terms

• bånsytar m (“male caretaker of children”)
• bånsytersk f (“female caretaker of children”)
• ómsyt (“cater to, carefully manage”)
• sytäsgeru, sytningsgeru (“requiring much maintenance, careful care; of people, plants etc”)
• sytäsgrann (“difficult to manage, fussy”)

Etymology 2

Through diminutive speech from Old Norse sǿtr, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus. Doublet of søt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syːt/, [sí͡ʷːt] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ýːt

  (í-ý merger) Rhymes: -ýːt, -íːt

  (øy-ý merger) Rhymes: -ýːt, -ǿʏ̯ːt

Interjection

syt (feminine definite singular syta)

1. used to call cows