birt

See also: bírt, BIRT, and Birt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Middle English byrte; compare French bertonneau and English bret, burt.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Noun

birt (plural birts)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for birt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cimbrian

Noun

birt m

  1. innkeeper

References
  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Irish

Noun

birt m

  1. genitive singular of beart (“bundle; covering; cast”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
birt bhirt mbirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bʲir͈ʲtʲ/

Verb

birt

  1. third-person singular preterite absolute of beirid

Verb

·birt

  1. second-person singular preterite conjunct of beirid
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