smit

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

smit

1. Alternative spelling of smitt

See smittle.

smit (third-person singular simple present smits, present participle smitting, simple past and past participle smitted)

1. (transitive, UK, obsolete, dialect) To infect.

smit (plural smits)

1. (UK, obsolete, dialect) An infection.
2. (UK, obsolete, dialect) A stain.

• smittle

smit

1. (obsolete, rare) simple past and past participle of smite
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne yeelded foote, ne once abacke did flit,
     But, being doubly smitten, likewise doubly smit

   • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC:

     smit with the beauty of so fair a scene

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     Gray not only saved his money, but being suddenly smit with the desire to rise, also studied his profession, and he is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged ship, married besides, and the father of a family.

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, stim

• smitt (Luserna)

From Old High German smid, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz. Cognate with German Schmied, Dutch smid, English smith.

smit m

1. (Tredici Comuni, Sette Comuni) smith

• 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

• IPA^(key): /smɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

smit n (genitive singular smits, no plural)

1. (pathology) infection

• smita (“to infect”)

From Old Dutch *smith

• IPA^(key): /smɪt/

smit m (stem smed-)

1. smith

• smet

• Dutch: smid
  • Afrikaans: smid
  • Negerhollands: smid
  • → Munsee: shumát
  • → Papiamentu: smet, smid
  • → Sranan Tongo: smeti, smitti
    • → Saramaccan: simítima
  • → Unami: shëmìt, shmìt
• Limburgish: smeid, smieëd

• “smit”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “smit (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I