nitta

From Fula nete, and its source, Mandingo nɛtɛ.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪtə/

nitta (plural nittas)

1. A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 65:

     These are the hard times, the long lingering days before the rains. Udders dry, grain reserves shot – even the insipid nitta pods in short supply.

• 'taint, Titan, taint, tinta, titan

Related to Finnish niittää.

nitta

1. to mow, to cut

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “косить, скосить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika