nipt

nip +‎ -t

nipt

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of nip
   • 1852, James Rennie, ‎George Glenny, The flower garden, its arrangement, cultivation and general management (page 61)

     […] the young shoots of the still hardier ivy, nipt and destroyed by an accidental night's frost in the early summer.

• INTP, pint

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪpt

nipt (not comparable)

1. narrow

nipt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of nippen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of nippen

nipt

1. narrowly

• pint

From Proto-Germanic *niftiz (“female relative”).

nipt f (genitive niptar)

1. female relative, kinswoman; sister; daughter

   nipt ok dísi nú mun ek telja: Snót, brúðr, svanni, svarri, sprakki, fljóð, sprund, kona, feima, ekkja, rýgr, víf ok drós, ristill, sæta, man, svarkr ok hæll, mær ok kerling.

   [terms for] kinswomen and ladies will I now name: Gentlewoman, bride, lady, proud lady, spark, woman, dame, female, sweet thing, widow, housewife, wife and sweetheart, slender lady, matron, bondswoman, haughty one and war-widow, maiden and old lady. (Nafnaþulur, kvenna heiti)

• nipt in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cleasby; Vigfusson (1874) An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 455