fitt

See also: Fitt

English

Noun

fitt (plural fitts)

1. Alternative form of fit (section of a poem or ballad)

Anagrams

• Tift, tift

Old English

Alternative forms

• fit

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fitt/, [fit]

Noun

fitt f

1. poem, song
2. conflict

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fitt	fitta, fitte
accusative	fitte	fitta, fitte
genitive	fitte	fitta
dative	fitte	fittum

Descendants

• Middle English: fitt, fit
  • English: fit
  • Scots: fit