kit
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century. The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.
Noun[edit]
kit (plural kits)
- A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
- A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
- 1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED):
- He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.
- A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
- Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
- Always carry a good first-aid kit.
- A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
- I built the entire car from a kit.
- (UK, sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
- 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph[1]:
- A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
- (UK, informal) Clothing.
- Get your kit off and come to bed.
- (computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
- (video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
- (music) A drum kit.
- (dated) The whole set; kit and caboodle.
- 1818, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Reports (volume 92, page 82)
- Do you know the proportion between ten and twelve or thirteen? — No; I should suppose you may take the whole kit of them as thirty; and the rest are people at from twenty to forty years of age.
- 1818, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Reports (volume 92, page 82)
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Verb[edit]
kit (third-person singular simple present kits, present participle kitting, simple past and past participle kitted)
- (transitive) To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.
- We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.
Etymology 2[edit]
A short form of kitten and/or kitling. From the 16th century (spelled kytte, kitt). From the 19th century also extended to other young animals (mink, fox, beaver, muskrat, etc.), and to a species of small fox ("kit-fox"). Later usage (for other animals) perhaps influenced by chit.
Noun[edit]
kit (plural kits)
- A kitten (young cat).
- A kit fox.
- A young beaver.
- A young skunk.
- A young ferret.
- A young rabbit.
- A young weasel
Translations[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
16th century, perhaps from cithara.
Noun[edit]
kit (plural kits)
- Synonym of kit violin
- 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge
- A dancing master's kit.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093:
- Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.
- 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge
Etymology 4[edit]
Borrowed from German kitte, kütte (circa 1880).
Noun[edit]
kit (plural kits)
Anagrams[edit]
Crimean Tatar[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit
- whale (Cetacea)
Declension[edit]
nominative | kit |
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genitive | kitniñ |
dative | kitke |
accusative | kitni |
locative | kitte |
ablative | kitten |
References[edit]
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Danish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit n (singular definite kittet, not used in plural form)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit n (singular definite kittet, plural indefinite kit or kits)
Inflection[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1[edit]
Of unknown origin. Possibly borrowed from the dialectal German Kietze (“carrying basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-. The German word has also appeared as Kötze, from Middle High German *kœzze, from Proto-Germanic *kut-, which would be related to the root of kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.[1]
Noun[edit]
kit f (plural kitten, diminutive kitje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit f or n (uncountable)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit m (plural kits, diminutive kitje n)
- set of tools
References[edit]
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Kotze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
kit
- accusative singular of ki
- Kit ajánl? ― Whom would you recommend?
- Kit érdekel? ― Who cares?
Jehai[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit
- buttocks
- kit tɔm : mouth of the river (literally: buttocks [of the] river)
References[edit]
- Niclas Burenhult, A grammar of Jahai (2005)
Nobiin[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit (ⲕⲓⲧ)
Nzadi[edit]
Noun[edit]
kít (plural kít)
Further reading[edit]
- Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from German Kitt, from Middle High German küt, küte, from Old High German kuti, quiti, kwiti, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz.
Noun[edit]
kit m inan
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
kit f
Further reading[edit]
- kit in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English kit.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit m (plural kits)
- kit (collection of items needed for a specific purpose)
- Synonym: jogo
- kit (collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble)
Derived terms[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit n (plural kituri)
Declension[edit]
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).
Noun[edit]
kȉt m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏т)
Declension[edit]
See also[edit]
- pliskavica (special type of a whale)
Slovene[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kȋt m anim (female equivalent kȋtovka)
Inflection[edit]
Masculine anim., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | kít | ||
gen. sing. | kíta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | kít | kíta | kíti |
accusative | kíta | kíta | kíte |
genitive | kíta | kítov | kítov |
dative | kítu | kítoma | kítom |
locative | kítu | kítih | kítih |
instrumental | kítom | kítoma | kíti |
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kȋt m inan
Inflection[edit]
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | kít | ||
gen. sing. | kíta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | kít | kíta | kíti |
accusative | kít | kíta | kíte |
genitive | kíta | kítov | kítov |
dative | kítu | kítoma | kítom |
locative | kítu | kítih | kítih |
instrumental | kítom | kítoma | kíti |
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit m (plural kits)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “kit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tok Pisin[edit]
Noun[edit]
kit
Turkmen[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian кит (kit), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).
Noun[edit]
kit (definite accusative kidi, plural kitler)
Declension[edit]
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- Rhymes:English/ɪt
- Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable
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- en:Baby animals
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- Danish terms derived from German
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- Jehai lemmas
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- Nzadi nouns
- nzd:Furniture
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- Rhymes:Polish/it
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- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- sh:Cetaceans
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