duit

Betawi

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch duit (“a small Dutch coin”).

Noun

duit

1. money

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

duit (feminine dui, masculine plural duits, feminine plural duis)

1. Alternative form of dut

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch duit, of uncertain origin. Possibly borrowed from Old Norse þveit (“cut-off piece of metal, small coin, doit”), related to Old English þwītan (“to cut, cutt off”) (whence dialectal English thwite).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dœy̯t/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: duit
• Rhymes: -œy̯t

Noun

duit m (plural duiten, diminutive duitje n)

1. (historical) A doit, a Dutch copper coin with the value of ¹⁄₁₆₀ of a guilder, current before the decimalization of 1816.
2. (informal, in the singular) An amount of money, a sum of money.

   Zij kon daarmee een aardige duit verdienen.

   She could make a pretty penny from that.

3. (informal, in the plural) Money in general.

   "Blijf met je gore klauwen van me duiten af," krijste de vrek.

   "Keep your filthy mitts of me moola," the miser shrieked.

Derived terms

• duitendief
• duitenkliever
• een duit in het zakje doen
• geen duit geven om
• spaarduit
• vierduitstuk

Descendants

• Afrikaans: duit
• → Caribbean Javanese: dhit, dhuwit
• → German: Deut
• → Javanese: ꦣꦸꦮꦶꦠ꧀ (ḍuwit)
• → Malay: duit
  • Betawi: duit
  • Indonesian: duit
    • → Petjo: doewit
  • → Chinese: 鐳／镭 (lûi)

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch duit (“a small Dutch coin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.it/
• Hyphenation: du‧it

Noun

duit (first-person possessive duitku, second-person possessive duitmu, third-person possessive duitnya)

1. (historical) A doit, a Dutch copper coin with the value of ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a rupiah
2. (colloquial, informal) money

   Synonyms: fulus, uang

Derived terms

• berduit
• seduit

 

Descendants

• → Petjo: doewit

Further reading

• “duit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Irish

Alternative forms

• dhuit
• duid (Ulster)

Etymology

From Old Irish duit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɪtʲ/
• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɞtʲ/

Pronoun

duit (emphatic duitse)

1. second-person singular of do: to/for you sg

Derived terms

• seo duit

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Javanese

Noun

duit

1. Nonstandard spelling of dhuwit.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) duit

1. (archaic) third-person singular present active subjunctive of dō; synonym of det

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Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch duit (“a small Dutch coin”).

Noun

duit (Jawi spelling دوءيت, plural duit-duit, informal 1st possessive duitku, 2nd possessive duitmu, 3rd possessive duitnya)

1. money

Descendants

• Betawi: duit
• Indonesian: duit
  • → Petjo: doewit
• → Chinese: 鐳／镭 (lûi)

See also

• wang

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Old French

Alternative forms

• doit

Etymology

From Latin ductum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdyi̯t/

Noun

duit oblique singular, m (oblique plural duiz or duitz, nominative singular duiz or duitz, nominative plural duit)

1. stream
   • Un duit unt cler e pessuns denz,
     E cil em prenent plus que cenz. (Voyage of St Brendan, ll. 799-800)

Related terms

• duire

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dutʲ/

Pronoun

duit

1. second-person singular of do: to/for you sg

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
duit	duit pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	nduit
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪uʰtʲ/

Pronoun

duit

1. Alternative form of dhut