birt

See also: bírt, BIRT, and Birt

English

Alternative forms

• bret
• brut
• burt

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English byrte; compare French bertonneau and English bret, burt.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Noun

birt (plural birts)

1. (UK, dialect) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “birt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Brit, Brit-, Brit., brit, trib

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Cimbrian

Noun

birt m

1. innkeeper

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Irish

Noun

birt m

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of beart (“bundle; covering; cast”)

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲir͈ʲtʲ/

Verb

birt

1. third-person singular preterite absolute of beirid

Related terms

• ·bert (conjunct)

Verb

·birt

1. second-person singular preterite conjunct of beirid