dit

• enPR: dĭt, IPA^(key): /dɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

From Middle English ditten, dütten, from Old English dyttan (“to stop up, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *duttijan, from Proto-Germanic *duttijaną, from *duttaz (“wisp”), akin to Icelandic dytta. Related to Old English dott (“dot, point”). More at dot.

dit (third-person singular simple present dits, present participle ditting, simple past and past participle ditted)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
2. (obsolete) To close up.
   • 1599, James VI and I, Basilikon Doron:

     that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus

• dottle

Variant of dite.

dit (plural dits)

1. (obsolete, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit: / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].

2. (obsolete) A word; a decree.

Imitative.

dit (plural dits)

1. The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

• dah

Shortening.

dit (plural dits)

1. (information theory) decimal digit

From French dit (“called”). Doublet of ditto.

dit (not comparable)

1. (Canada, obsolete) Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.

• on dit

• DTI, IDT, TDI, TID, it'd, tid

• 't (Cape Afrikaans)

From Dutch dit (“this”), from Middle Dutch dit, from Old Dutch thit.

• IPA^(key): /dət/

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dit (possessive sy)

1. it, this, that (subject and object)
   1. referring to the context

      Dit lyk baie moeilik.

      It seems very difficult.

   2. referring to something seen or heard in the real world

      Dit is ’n huis. ― This is a house.

   3. referring to non-personal singular nouns

      Sy het my die boek gegee, maar ek het dit nog nie gelees nie.

      She gave me the book, but I haven’t read it yet.

• Dit is is commonly contracted to dis, both in speech and writing: Dis 'n huis.

• (referring to something seen or heard): hierdie; daardie (both more demonstrative)
• (referring to non-personal singulars): hy, hom

• dis

• die, dié

• ditu, ditru, din

From Latin de-inter.

dit

1. from

• dintrã
• ditrã

dit

1. second-person singular of da

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdit]
• Rhymes: -it

Inherited from Latin digitus. Doublet of dígit. Cognate with Occitan det and dit, French doigt, Spanish dedo and dígito, Portuguese dedo and dígito, and Galician dedo.

dit m (plural dits)

1. finger, toe
2. fingerbreadth

   tres o quatre dits d'ample

   three or four finger(breadth)s wide

Inherited from Latin dictus.

dit (feminine dita, masculine plural dits, feminine plural dites)

1. past participle of dir

• dita

• “dit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• diss (as neuter singular, especially Kölsch)
• det, dess (widespread vocalic variant)

From Middle High German diser m, whose neuter was dit in Central Franconian (other Middle High German diz). The regular outcome would be disse vs. det. The vocalic variation was levelled one way or the other in all dialects. Levelling of the consonantism remained optional and probably occurred only after the determiner had been chiefly restricted to periods of time.

• IPA^(key): /dit/
• (masculine disse) /ˈdizə/

dit (masculine disse, feminine and plural diss)

1. this, the current

   disse Mond ― this month

   diss Woch ― this week

   dit Johr ― this year

2. (very rare) this, the one right here

   Synonyms: dat, hee dat, dat ... hee

dit (common din, plural dine)

1. (possessive) neuter singular of din

From Middle Dutch dit, from Old Dutch thit. Cognate with German dies.

• IPA^(key): /dɪt/

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• Homophone: Dit
• Hyphenation: dit
• Rhymes: -ɪt

dit

1. this (neuter); referring to a thing or a person closer by.

   dit huis

   this house

   dit kind

   this child

• ditmaal

• Afrikaans: dit
• Jersey Dutch: dit

dit n

1. (demonstrative) this, this here

   Wat is dit?

   What is this?

This pronoun can combine with a preposition to form a pronominal adverb. When this occurs, it is changed into its adverbial/locative counterpart hier. See also Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs.

• IPA^(key): /di/

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From Old French dit, from Latin dictus.

dit (feminine dite, masculine plural dits, feminine plural dites)

1. past participle of dire

   Il a dit son nom. ― He said his name.

2. (in names) Indicating a surname used as a family name.

From Latin dīcit, third-person singular present active indicative of dīcō.

dit

1. inflection of dire:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular past historic

   « Je m’appelle Paul, » dit-il. ― “My name is Paul,” he said.

• “dit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin dictus, dictum.

dit

1. past participle of dî

dit

1. said

dit m (plural dits)

1. saying, maxim

• düt

• IPA^(key): /dɪt/, /dʏt/

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dit

1. (colloquial, regional, north-eastern Germany, including Berlin) Synonym of das

   Kann man dit irgendwie ändern?

   Can this be changed somehow?

   Wie oft muss ick ’n dir dit noch sagen?

   How many times do I have to tell you this?

dit

1. (law enforcement) Clipping of direktorat (“directorate”).

From French dire (“to tell”), compare Haitian Creole di.

dit

1. to tell

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

• düt

dit n

1. this

• disse (dissen)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dit

1. this

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dit

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of dese

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

dit

1. (Sylt) the (neuter singular)

• Besides personal and possessive pronouns, dit is the only gendered form in Sylt Frisian, as gender distinctions in determiners and adjectives have been lost (unlike other North Frisian dialects). This causes a marked tendency to abolish grammatical gender altogether (compare the article template below). The distinction of the neuter is mainly stabilized by Standard German influence; gender distribution, when applied, therefore tends to follow closely the German pattern.

• det (Föhr-Amrum), dåt (Mooring)

• de, jü, da, dön

dit

1. to that place; thither

• det

From Latin digitus.

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dit m (plural dits)

1. finger

From Latin dictum.

dit oblique singular, m (oblique plural diz or ditz, nominative singular diz or ditz, nominative plural dit)

1. word
2. story; tale

• conte
• lai

From Latin dictus.

dit

1. past participle of dire
2. third-person singular present indicative of dire
3. third-person singular past historic of dire

• French: dit

• dyt
• ditt

From Early Scots ditt or dyt, from Old English dyttan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪt/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪʔ/

dit (third-person singular simple present dits, present participle ditin, simple past ditt, past participle ditt)

1. to close (especially of a door or mouth)
2. to block or stop up (of an opening)
3. to obstruct, especially from view
4. to darken or dim (in the sense of obscuring light)
5. of the sun: to sink or to be obscured by clouds

From Old Swedish þit, from Old Norse þít, according to SAOB likely from þí + at. þí is in turn an old locative, possibly related to Gothic 𐌸𐌴𐌹 (þei), and more distantly to Ancient Greek τεῖ (teî) in τεῖδε (teîde, “thither”). Equivalent to ty + åt.

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dit (not comparable)

1. to there, thither, (often in practice, in translations) there

   Antonym: hit (“to here, hither”)

   Jag gick dit, så nu är jag där

   I went [to] there, so now I am there

   Jag gick där (for comparison)

   I was walking (around) there / I was walking at that location

   Jag har aldrig varit i London, men jag ska dit snart

   I've never been to London, but I'm going [to] there soon (see ska for why there is no resa (“travel”), åka (“go”), or the like)

   springa hit och dit

   run to here and to there / run hither and thither (indicating for example chaos or a lack of direction)

2. (relative) to where, where (expresses movement to a place)

   staden dit de flyttade

   the city [to] where / to which they moved

   • 1973, Landslaget (lyrics and music), “Tala om vart du ska resa”‎^[1]:

     Ta mig dit där solen skiner, dit där himlen jämt är blå, dit där sjöarna är klara, dit jag alltid velat gå.

     Take me [to] where ["to where, where ..." – second "where" from "där"] the sun shines, [to] where [where] the sky is always blue, [to] where [where] the lakes are clear, [to] where I've always wanted ["have wanted" – "have" implied from supine] to go [walk].

• där (“there, as a location”)
• ditåt (“that way”)
• ty
• vart

• dit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• tid

dit

1. neuter singular of dizze