rit

• ritt, ret

From Middle English ritten (“to cut, score, slit, tear”), from Old English *rittan (“to cut, score, slit, tear,”) (compare Old High German rizzen), from Proto-Germanic *ritjaną (“to cut, scratch”) (compare with Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut, carve, engrave”)). Cognate with German ritzen (“to scratch”). See also rat.

• Rhymes: -ɪt

rit (plural rits)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.

rit (third-person singular simple present rits, present participle ritting, simple past and past participle ritted)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
3. (Northern England, Scotland) To slit.

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

rit

1. ritardando

• IRT, RTI, TIR, TRI, Tir, tri, tri-

rit ?

1. rite

• IPA^(key): /rɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Possibly a borrowing from Middle Low German rit or Middle High German ritt, related to Middle Dutch rêde, dialectal Dutch reed.

rit m (plural ritten, diminutive ritje n)

1. a ride on horseback or in a vehicle

• testrit

See the etymology of the main entry.

rit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of ritten
2. imperative of ritten

• tri

Latin ritus

• IPA^(key): /ʁi/

rit m (plural rits)

1. rite

rit

1. third-person singular present indicative of rire
2. third-person singular past historic of rire

• “rit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• tir, tri

From Old Norse rit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

rit n (genitive singular rits, nominative plural rit)

1. writ
2. work, literary work
3. (mathematics) chart, diagram

• rita
• ritari

rit

1. water

• Paul K. Benedict, Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus (1972, →ISBN, page 61 (rit)
• Proto-Northern-Burmic Reconstruction (SIL) (ɣit⁴)
• Huang Bufan (editor), Xu Shouchun, Chen Jiaying, Wan Huiyin, A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon (1992; Central Minorities University, Beijing) (ɣək³¹)

Uncertain, possibly substrate origin. Compare Friulian raze, Hungarian réce, Albanian rosë, Serbo-Croatian raca.

rit m (plural rits)

1. duck

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

rȉt f (Cyrillic spelling ри̏т)

1. (vulgar) butt

• stražnjica, zadnjica

From German Ried.

rȋt m (Cyrillic spelling ри̑т)

1. swamp, peat bog

• močvara, močvarna livada

From Proto-Slavic *ritь.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrít/
• Tonal orthography: rȉt

rìt f (genitive ríti, nominative plural ríti)

1. (vulgar) ass (buttocks); asshole (anus)

• ríten
• rítnik

• zádnjica
• zádnjičen
• zádnjičnonôžen
• zádnjik

rit c

1. rite

• IPA^(key): [ríːt] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -íːt

  (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːt, -ýːt

rit f (definite singular rita, dative ritn, definite plural riten, dative ritåm)

1. drawn line, dash

rit

1. singular active present indicative of riit