eldertongue

Old English · noun

fitt

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong ō-stem
IPA
/fitt/
[fit]
Syllables
fitt (1 syllable)
Modern English
poemfitsong

Meaning

  1. poem, song

    Nū iċ fitte ġēn ymb fisca cynn wille wōðcræfte wordum cȳþan þurh mōdġemynd bī þām miclan hwale.

    Now, I wish again to tell a song about fishkind by words of speech-craft through mind-thoughts about the great whale.

    10th century, The Whale:

  2. conflict

Declension

Declension of fitt
SingularPlural
Nominative fittfittafitte
Accusative fittefittafitte
Genitive fittefitta
Dative fittefittum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fittju, from Proto-Germanic *fitjō (“foot, seam”) and *fitī (“section, segment, chapter”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pedio-. Cognate with Old Saxon *fittea, attested in the borrowed Latin vittea.

Descendants

fit

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