abit

See also: a bit

English

abit

The misspelling is found in informal writing, but seldom, if ever, in printed works.

abit

abit

abit

third-person singular simple present indicative of abide
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […] In Three Volumes, volume III, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, OCLC 752865638, line 1175, page 163:
  He is so variaunt, he abit nowhere.
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Borrowed from Latin habitus.

abit m (oblique plural abiz or abitz, nominative singular abiz or abitz, nominative plural abit)

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