# brit
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɹɪt/
* Rhymes: -ɪt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).

#### Alternative forms

* britt
* brite (dialectal)

#### Verb

brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)
* (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
* (transitive) To bruise; indent.
* (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
* (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.

##### Derived terms

* britten
* brittle

### Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

#### Alternative forms

* britt

#### Noun

brit (plural brit)
* One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
* One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

### Etymology 3

Short for brit milah.

#### Alternative forms

* bris

#### Noun

brit (plural brits)
* brit milah

### Anagrams

* trib, Trib, BIRT, trib., Birt, birt

## Albanian
### Etymology

Gheg word. From Proto-Albanian *breita, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to pierce, cut with something sharp”). Cognate to Lithuanian bárti (“to scold, chide”), Old Irish briathar (“argument”), Old Church Slavonic брати (brati, “fight”), Welsh brwydr (“fight, struggle”).

### Noun

brit f
* scream, yell

#### Derived terms

* bërtas
* britmë

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* britt (archaic, nonstandard)

### Etymology

From German Brite, from Latin Brītō̆nēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbrit]
* Rhymes: -it

### Adjective

brit (not comparable)
* British

#### Derived terms

* brit angol
* Brit antarktiszi terület
* brit birodalom
* Brit Columbia
* Brit India
* Brit Indiai-óceáni Terület
* Brit Kelet-indiai Társaság
* Brit Nemzetközösség
* Brit Nyugat-India
* brit rövidszőrű
* brit tengerentúli területek
* Brit Virgin-szigetek
* Brit-sziget and Brit-szigetek

#### Related terms

* Britannia → Nagy-Britannia, Új-Britannia

### Noun

brit (plural britek)
* Briton, Brit

#### Declension
### See also

* Anglia, angol, angolszász, angli
* Egyesült Királyság

### References

* ↑ brit in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* brit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* brit in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).