guit

Catalan

Etymology

From Frankish *wiht (“thing, creature”). Cognate with English wight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡit]

Adjective

guit (feminine guita, masculine plural guits, feminine plural guites)

1. bucking, that kicks (of a horse or mule)

Derived terms

• guitar

Related terms

• guitza

Further reading

• “guit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch guyte, probably from ghoiten (“to berate”), gu(i)ten (“to make fun of”), possibly from Old Norse gautan (“drivel”), gauta (“to talk a lot”), connected with Old High German gauzen, gäuzen (“to namecall”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to yawn, gape”).

Also compared is Norwegian gutt (“boy”), but this could be a reverse borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣœy̯t/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: guit
• Rhymes: -œy̯t

Noun

guit m (plural guiten, diminutive guitje n)

1. tomboy, rascal, joker, troublemaker

   De guit krijgt een spuit. ― The rascal receives an injection.

Synonyms

• deugniet, kapoen, schalk

Derived terms

• guitig

References

• Études germaniques, Volume 61 (2006)
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guit”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1259”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1259

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡit/

• Audio:

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Noun

guit f (plural guits)

1. (colloquial, Quebec) guitar