# hiti
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse hiti, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhiːtɪ/
    Rhymes: -iːtɪ
    Homophone: hitið

### Noun

hiti m (genitive singular hita, uncountable)
* heat, warmth
* fever
* (meteorology) temperature

#### Derived terms

* hitaárin
* hitabelti
* hitabrúgv
* hitabylgja
* hitadunkur
* hitaeind
* hitafløska
* hitahvarv
* hitakanna
* hitalag
* hitaleiðari
* hitalinja
* hitalond
* hitamálari
* hitamálarstandur
* hitamát
* hitamátari
* hitameistari
* hitaorka
* hitaprentari
* hitapumpa
* hitasavningarløgur
* hitasavningarslanga
* hitasjúka
* hitaslag
* hitastillari
* hitastrik
* hitastýrdur
* hitatól
* hitatungur
* hitaveiting
* hitaverk
* hitaviðgerð
* hitaviðurskifti
* hitavirði
* hitavørður

### Further reading

* "hiti" at Sprotin.fo

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse hiti.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɪːtɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɪːtɪ

### Noun

hiti m (genitive singular hita, nominative plural hitar)
* heat
* fever
* (meteorology) temperature

#### Derived terms

* hitavella
* jarðhiti
* sótthiti

#### Related terms

* heitur
* hita

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

Hinde (1904) records hiti as an equivalent of English hyæna in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbiti and Swahili fisi together with pisi as its equivalents.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hìtí/
    As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
* (Kiambu)
   * (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.

### Noun

hiti class 9/10 (plural hiti)
* hyena, especially spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

#### Derived terms

(Proverbs)
* gũthekererwo nĩ andũ ti kũrĩrĩrwo nĩ hiti
* hiti ciathiĩ mbwe ciegangara
* mĩcingũ ĩĩrĩ yuunaga hiti kũgũrũ
* mũragwo tũhũ ndaregagwo nĩ hiti
* ngatia ciathiĩ hiti cĩeragara
* tũtikũhe hiti kerĩ

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* ↑ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
* ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
* ↑ Kingdon, Jonathan (1977). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part A (Carnivores), p. 260. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN
* “hiti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From or related to Proto-Germanic *haitį̄. See also heitr (“hot”).

### Noun

hiti m
* heat

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: hiti m
* Faroese: hiti m
* Norwegian: hete m
* Jamtish: hata m (from the oblique)
* Old Swedish: hiti, hete m
** ⇒ Old Swedish: hita (from the oblique)
*** Swedish: hetta
** Swedish: (obsolete) hete m, hette m
* Danish: hede c

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hiti”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive