Albanian

Noun

vit m (indefinite plural vite or vjet, definite singular viti, definite plural vjetit)

1. year

Derived terms

• vjetër

Faroese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [viːt]

Noun

vit n (genitive singular vits, uncountable)

1. intelligence
2. consciousness
   • fáa vitið aftur

     to regain consciousness

Synonyms

• (intelligence): skilningur, fatan, skyn, skil

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [viːt], hasty: IPA^(key): [vɪtː]

Pronoun

vit

1. we
   • Vit eru føroyingar.

     We are Faroese.

   • Vit koma aftur.

     We come back. / We will return.

Declension

Synonyms

• okur (Sandoy, Suðuroy)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi/

Etymology 1

See voir.

Verb

vit

1. third-person singular past historic of voir

Etymology 2

See vivre.

Verb

vit

1. third-person singular present indicative of vivre

Etymology 3

From Old French vit, from Latin vectis ‎(“rod, lever”).

Noun

vit m ‎(plural vits)

1. (obsolete, literary) pintle, John Thomas (****)
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Ce fut Durcet qui, ce matin-là, se prêta aux exercices de pollutions, et, comme son vit était extraordinairement petit, il donna plus de peine aux écolières.

     It was Durcet who, that morning, took part in the spunking exercises, and, as his dick was extraordinarily small, he caused the school girls more grief.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

Noun

vit n ‎(genitive singular vits, no plural)

1. wits, an intellect
2. comfortable
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic sourve)

     Vits er þörf

     þeim er víða ratar.

     Dælt er heima hvað.

     Að augabragði verður

     sá er ekki kann

     og með snotrum situr.

     Wits must he have

     who wanders wide,

     But all is easy at home;

     At the witless man

     the wise shall wink

     When among such men he sits.

   Viðskiptavit.

   Business acumen.

Declension

Derived terms

• vitfirring
• vitfirringur
• vitfirrtur
• vitgrannur
• vitiborinn
• vitlaus
• vitlausrahæli
• vitlegur
• vitleysa
• vitleysingur
• vitmaður
• vitneskja
• vitorð
• vitringur
• vitrænn
• vitskertur
• vitsmunalíf
• vitsmunir
• vitstola

See also

• skynsemi
• greind

Lojban

Rafsi

vit

1. rafsi of vitci.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vit

1. imperative of vite

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vit

1. imperative of vita and vite

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vit/

Etymology 1

From Latin vectis ‎(“rod”).

Noun

vit m ‎(oblique plural viz or vitz, nominative singular viz or vitz, nominative plural vit)

1. (vulgar) dick; cock (human ****)

Descendants

• French: vit

Etymology 2

see veoir

Verb

vit

1. Third-person singular past historic of veoir

Etymology 3

see vivre

Verb

vit

1. third-person singular present indicative of vivre

Old Norse

Pronoun

vit

1. first-person dual pronoun (we two)

Descendants

• Faroese: vit
• Icelandic: við

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hvit (obsolete since 1906)

Etymology

From Old Swedish hvīter, from Old Norse hvítr, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vit

1. of the colour white

Inflection

See also

• vitt noun