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hitten
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English
Verb
hitten
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Noun
hitten
German
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
hitten (weak, third-person singular present hittet, past tense hittete, past participle gehittet, auxiliary haben)
- (slang, roleplaying games) to hit (to strike)
- (slang) to hit (to reach or achieve)
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- one-hitten
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hyttan (“to come upon”), from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall upon”).
Both Old English hyttan and its Middle English reflexes point to Old English /y/ in this word; possibly it was initially borrowed into a variety which had unrounded /y/ to /i/, then received /y/ in other varieties by analogy with native words where /y/ corresponded to /i/ in unrounding varieties.
Pronunciation
Verb
hitten (third-person singular simple present hitteth, present participle hittynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative hitte, past participle hit)
- (ambitransitive) To hit; to come into contact with (especially forcefully):
- (ambitransitive) To encounter or find; to meet with or come upon.
- (intransitive) To travel or journey.
- (ambitransitive, rare) To throw or toss; to cause to hit.
Conjugation
1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
References
- “hitten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “hit, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - Dance, Richard; Pons-Sanz, Sara; Schorn, Brittany (2019), “hitte v. (wk.)”, in The Gersum Project
, University of Cambridge, University of Cardiff, and the University of Sheffield.
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Swedish
Noun
hitten
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