vit

From Proto-Albanian *weta, from Proto-Indo-European *wétos (compare Greek έτος (étos), Latin vetus ‘old’).

vit m (indefinite plural vite or vjet, definite singular viti, definite plural vitet or vjetët)

1. year

• vjetër

From Proto-Germanic *witją from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate to English wit, archaic Dutch wit, akin to Old Saxon giwit.

• IPA^(key): [viːt]

vit n (genitive singular vits, uncountable)

1. intelligence
2. consciousness
   • fáa vitið aftur

     to regain consciousness

• (intelligence): skilningur, fatan, skyn, skil

From Old Norse vit.

• IPA^(key): [viːt], hasty: IPA^(key): [vɪtː]

vit

1. we
   • Vit eru føroyingar.

     We are Faroese.

   • Vit koma aftur.

     We come back. / We will return.

• okur (Sandoy, Suðuroy)

• IPA^(key): /vi/

See voir.

vit

1. third-person singular past historic of voir

See vivre.

vit

1. third-person singular present indicative of vivre

From Old French vit, from Latin vectis (“rod, lever”).

vit m (plural vits)

1. (obsolete, literary) pintle, John Thomas (penis)
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Ce fut Durcet qui, ce matin-là, se prêta aux exercices de pollutions, et, comme son vit était extraordinairement petit, il donna plus de peine aux écolières.

     It was Durcet who, that morning, took part in the spunking exercises, and, as his dick was extraordinarily small, he caused the school girls more grief.

• “vit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Norse vit, from Proto-Germanic *witją. Cognate with Faroese vit, Danish vid, Swedish vett, English wit, Dutch wit, German Witz.

• IPA^(key): /vɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt

vit n (genitive singular vits, no plural)

1. wits, intelligence
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic sourve)

     Vits er þörf

     þeim er víða ratar.

     Dælt er heima hvað.

     Að augabragði verður

     sá er ekki kann

     og með snotrum situr.

     Wits must he have

     who wanders wide,

     But all is easy at home;

     At the witless man

     the wise shall wink

     When among such men he sits.

2. reason, sense

   Viðskiptavit.

   Business acumen.

3. knowledge
4. awareness, sentience

• (wit, intelligence): greind
• (reason, sense): skynsemi, skynsemd, mannvit
• (knowledge): þekking
• (awareness): meðvitund

• vita (“to know”)

vit

1. imperative of vite

vit

1. imperative of vita and vite

• IPA^(key): /vit/

From Latin vectis (“rod”).

vit m (oblique plural viz or vitz, nominative singular viz or vitz, nominative plural vit)

1. (vulgar) dick; cock (human penis)

• French: vit

see veoir

vit

1. third-person singular past historic of veoir

see vivre

vit

1. third-person singular present indicative of vivre

vit

1. first-person dual pronoun (we two)

• Faroese: vit
• Icelandic: við

• hvit (obsolete since 1906)

From Old Swedish hvīter, from Old Norse hvítr, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːt/

• audio

  (file)

vit

1. of the colour white

• vitt (noun)