abit
See also: a bit
English
Adverb
abit
- Misspelling of a bit.
Usage notes
The misspelling is found in informal writing, but seldom, if ever, in printed works.
Finnish
Noun
abit
- nominative plural of abi
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) abit
Middle English
Verb
abit
- third-person singular simple present indicative of abide
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume III, Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC, page 163, line 1175:
- He is so variaunt, he abit nowhere.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
abit oblique singular, m (oblique plural abiz or abitz, nominative singular abiz or abitz, nominative plural abit)
Descendants
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