tuit
English
Etymology
A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.
Noun
tuit (plural tuits)
- (humorous) Synonym of round tuit
- 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:
- THIS IS A TUIT
- 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.org>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <3a2ed57b.471201@news.earthlink.net>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet [2]:
- My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.
- 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <fromrarp@scottharvey.com>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <3cf2b4de.159435990@enews.newsguy.com>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet [3]:
- 1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.
- 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>, "Tuit", message-ID <538pjq$nn1@orm.southern.co.nz>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Further origin unknown.
Noun
tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tuit
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tuit
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tuiten
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of tuiten
Finnish
Verb
tuit
Anagrams
Irish
Noun
tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)
- Alternative form of toit (“smoke”)
Declension
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Verb
tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)
- Alternative form of tit (“fall”)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tuit | thuit | dtuit |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old French
Adjective
tuit m
- nominative singular of tot (“all”)
Adverb
tuit
- nominative singular of tot (“all; completely”)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
·tuit
tuit
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
(·)tuit | (·)thuit | (·)tuit pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Adjective
tuit
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
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From Old Irish do·tuit (“falls”).
Pronunciation
Verb
tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)
- fall
- happen, befall, chance
- stumble, slip
- subside
- sink
- set (as the sun)
- benight
- be seduced by
- fail
- damp
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
tuit | thuit |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “tuit”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 do-tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Etymology
Created by the Fundación del Español Urgente in order to have a more Hispanic word rather than adopting "tweet" from English. Added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española in 2015.
Pronunciation
Noun
tuit m (plural tuits)
- (computing) tweet (post on Twitter)
- 2019 February 6, Elvira Guillén, “Premios Oscar sin anfitrión”, in Teleradio América Noticias[5]:
- En diciembre, el comediante Kevin Hart declinó una oferta de la Academia para presentar los Oscar debido a una controversia que se desató por unos tuits homofóbicos de hace una década.
- In December, the comedian Kevin Hart declined an offer from the Academy to host the Oscars due to a controversy sparked by some homophobic tweets from a decade ago.
Related terms
Further reading
- “tuit”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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