fitt

English

Noun

fitt (plural fitts)

Alternative form of fit (section of a poem or ballad)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fitt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Tift, tift

Old English

Alternative forms

fit

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fitjō (“foot, seam”) and *fitī (“section, segment, chapter”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pedio-. Cognate with Old Saxon fittea, attested in the borrowed Latin vittea.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfitː/

Noun

fitt f

Declension

Declension of fitt (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fitt	fitta, fitte
accusative	fitte	fitta, fitte
genitive	fitte	fitta
dative	fitte	fittum

Descendants

Middle English: fitt, fit
- English: fit
- Scots: fit

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