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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hitjanan (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *k(')eid- (“to fall, fall upon”). Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“fall”).

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hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past and past participle hit)

  1. (transitive) To administer a blow to.
    One boy hit the other.
    • 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves
      He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 15
      BELLO: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
      BLOOM: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell ...
    • 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game
      I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
  2. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
    The ball hit the fence.
    • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Part II, Chapter V
      a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
    • 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
      Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (transitive) To manage to touch in the right place.
    I hit the jackpot.
  4. (transitive) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
    Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
  5. (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
    Hit me.
  6. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
    Jones hit for the pitcher.
  7. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
    We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
  8. (transitive, informal) To encounter.
    We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
    You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
  9. (transitive, colloquial) To begin; to start; to open.
    The movie hits theaters in December.
  10. (transitive, computing, programming) To use.
    The external web servers hit DBSRV7, the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
  11. (transitive) To affect negatively.
    The economy was hit by a recession.
  12. (transitive, figuratively, US, slang) To have sex with.
    I'd hit that.
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  • (manage to touch in the right place): miss
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[edit] Translations
To give a blow
To manage to touch in the right place
To kill a person on the instructions of a third party
In blackjack, to deal a card to
To come up to bat
To go (somewhere)
To begin
To use
To affect negatively
To have sex with
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[edit] Noun

hit (plural hits)

  1. A blow; a punch.
    The hit was very slight.
  2. A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
    The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
  3. An attack on a location, person or people.
  4. (computing) (Internet) The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine
  5. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
    My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
  6. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  7. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
    The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
  8. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
    Where am I going to get my next hit?
  9. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
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Derived terms
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blow, punch
success, especially in the entertainment industry
attack on a location
(computing) (Internet) result of a search
(Internet) measured visit to a web site
approximately correct answer in a test set
(baseball) complete play, when the batter reaches base
dose of an illegal or addictive drug
murder for criminal or political purposes
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it. Note 'it.

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hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

  1. (dialectal) It.
    • 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
      But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
    • 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
      Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
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[edit] Alemannic German

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From Old High German hiutu, a contraction of hiu tagu, a calque on Latin hodie. Cognate of German heute.

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hit

  1. (Alsatian) today
    Hit isch dr Jean-Pierre so drüri. - Jean-Pierre is so sad today.

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hit m.

  1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

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[edit] Hungarian

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From hisz (“to believe”)

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hit (plural hitek)

  1. faith, belief

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declension of hit
singular plural
nominative hit hitek
accusative hitet hiteket
dative hitnek hiteknek
instrumental hittel hitekkel
causal-final hitért hitekért
translative hitté hitekké
terminative hitig hitekig
essive-formal hitként hitekként
essive-modal - -
inessive hitben hitekben
superessive hiten hiteken
adessive hitnél hiteknél
illative hitbe hitekbe
sublative hitre hitekre
allative hithez hitekhez
elative hitből hitekből
delative hitről hitekről
ablative hittől hitektől
possessives of hit
possessor singular possession plural possession
1st person sing. hitem hiteim
2nd person sing. hited hiteid
3rd person sing. hite hitei
1st person plural hitünk hiteink
2nd person plural hitetek hiteitek
3rd person plural hitük hiteik

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[edit] Limburgish

[edit] Etymology

From Dutch, from English hit

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hit f.

  1. (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)

[edit] Usage notes

Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, so slaag is more often used.

[edit] Inflection

Inflection
Root singular Root plural Diminutive singular Diminutive plural
Nominative hit hits hitje hitjes
Genitive hit hits hitjes hitjes
Locative hittes hitteser hitteske hitteskes
Dative¹² — — — —
Accusative¹² — — — —
  • Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
  • The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.

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hit

  1. it

[edit] Norwegian

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hit

  1. here (to this place)


This Norwegian entry was created from the translations listed at here. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see hit in the Norwegian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) March 2010

[edit] Old Dutch

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From Proto-Germanic *hit.

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hit

  1. it

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, “it”). More at hē.

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hit n. (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)

  1. it

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[edit] Polish

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From English hit.

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hit m.

  1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

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    declension of hit
singular plural
nominative hit hity
genitive hitu hitów
dative hitowi hitom
accusative hit hity
instrumental hitem hitami
locative hicie hitach
vocative hicie hity

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Etymology 1

From English hit.

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hit c.

  1. (informal) hit; something very popular. (A book, a movie, a song, ...)

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Swedish hit, from *hī+at.

Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.

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hit (not comparable)

  1. here; to this place, hither
    Jag kom hit igår
    I came here yesterday
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