tuit

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English

Etymology

A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.

Noun

tuit (plural tuits)

  1. (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.

Anagrams


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tœy̯t/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tuit
  • Rhymes: -œy̯t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (bag). Further origin unknown.

Noun

tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)

  1. a spout
  2. (obsolete) lock of hair
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: tuit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tuit

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tuiten
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of tuiten

Finnish

Verb

tuit

  1. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular past indicative of tukea

Anagrams


Irish

Noun

tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)

  1. Alternative form of toit (smoke)

Declension

Verb

tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)

  1. Alternative form of tit (fall)

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
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


Old French

Adjective

tuit m

  1. nominative singular of tot (all)

Adverb

tuit

  1. nominative singular of tot (all; completely)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

·tuit

  1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of do·tuit

tuit

  1. second-person singular present imperative of do·tuit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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

  1. all; every

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage)

From Old Irish do·tuit (falls).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t̪uʰtʲ], /t̪ʰuʰtʰʲ/

Verb

tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)

  1. fall
  2. happen, befall, chance
  3. stumble, slip
  4. subside
  5. sink
  6. set (as the sun)
  7. benight
  8. be seduced by
  9. fail
  10. damp

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
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

  • IPA(key): /ˈtwid/ [ˈt̪wið̞]

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

  1. (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.

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