birt

• bret, brut, burt

From Middle English byrte; compare French bertonneau and English bret, burt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː(ɹ)t/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Homophones: Bert, Burt

birt (plural birts)

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

• “birt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Brit, Brit-, Brit., Trib, brit, trib

From Middle High German wirt, from Old High German *wirt, from Proto-Germanic *werduz (“host”). Doublet of Sette Comuni dialect biart (“master, owner”). Cognate with German Wirt (“innkeeper”).

birt m

1. (Luserna) innkeeper

• birthaus

• “birt” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

birt

1. genitive singular of beart m (“bundle; covering; cast”)
2. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of beart f (“covering; cast”)

From Middle High German wirt, from Old High German *wirt, from Proto-Germanic *werduz (“host”). Cognate with German Wirt.

birt m

1. innkeeper

• birtshaus

• “birt” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• IPA^(key): /bʲir͈ʲtʲ/

birt

1. third-person singular preterite absolute of beirid

• ·bert (conjunct)

·birt

1. second-person singular preterite conjunct of beirid

birt

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of birgr

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian birt, from German Wirt.

birt n (plural birturi)

1. diner, eatery
2. (dated) inn