smit

smit

1. Alternative spelling of smitt

smit

1. (archaic, rare) simple past tense and past participle of smite

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • Cowper

     smit with the beauty of so fair a scene

• ISTM, ITSM, MiST, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, stim

• smitt (Luserna)

From Old High German smid, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz. Cognate with German Schmied, Dutch smid, English smith.

smit m

1. (Thirteen Communities, Sette Comuni) smith

• “smit” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /smɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

smit n (genitive singular smits, no plural)

1. (pathology) infection

• smita (“to infect”)

From Old Dutch *smith, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz.

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

smit m (stem smed-)

1. smith

• smet

• Dutch: smid
  • Afrikaans: smid
• Limburgish: smeid, smieëd

• “smit”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “smit (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old Norse smíta, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną.

smit

1. To quickly or as by chance put or throw something in any place or into something.

   hä går hȯrä hä will men jag smitä dit a jag

   Whichever way it goes I threw it there anyway.

• smisk

• smong

From Middle Low German smîte.

smit f

1. The loop at the end of a net or a fishnet, by which one net is attached to the other when netting.
2. The very end of the net.

   stor fisskjen sȧt yterst på smita

   The big fish sat at the end of the net