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Abbreviation of English Mixtec, Spanish mixteco, or Classical Nahuatl mixtēcah.

mit

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Puebla Mixtec.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Southern Puebla Mixtec terms

mit (plural mits)

1. Dated form of mitt
   • 1949, Hardware World: Plumbing & Heating, volume 46, page 84:

     Baseball mits should be attached to this background in their right positions. At home plate, or bottom, place a catcher's mit and below that cross two baseball bats.

mit

1. I

From Middle High German mite, mit, from Old High German miti, mit, from Proto-West Germanic *midi. Cognate with German mit.

mit

1. with [with dative]

• IPA^(key): /mit˥/, [mit˥]

mit

1. wrath, anger

• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 55
• Clark, E. W. (1911), “MEIT”, in Ao-Naga dictionary, Dimapur

• IPA^(key): /mit/, [mid̥]

mit

1. (possessive) neuter singular of min

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Homophones: mi, mie, mies, mis, mît

mit

1. third-person singular past historic of mettre

• m. (abbreviation)
• m/ (abbreviation; now very rare)

From Middle High German mite, mit, from Old High German miti, mit, from Proto-West Germanic *midi. Cognate with German Low German met, mihe- (separable part of verbs) (Paderbornisch) and Middle English mid (“with”).

• IPA^(key): /mɪt/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

mit [with dative]

1. with (in the company of, alongside)

   Ich spiele mit meinen Freunden.

   I'm playing with my friends.

2. with, by (using as an instrument, by means of)

   Ich schreibe mit einem Bleistift.

   I'm writing with a pencil.

   Ich fahre mit dem Bus.

   I'm going by bus.

3. with (having a property, accessory or possession)

   Siehst du den Mann mit der Brille da drüben?

   Do you see the man with the glasses over there?

   Mit ausreichend Übung passiert dir das nicht mehr.

   With enough practice, that won't happen to you anymore.

   1. including, with ... included
   2. at (with the age of)

      Er hat mit fünf Jahren lesen gelernt.

      He learned how to read at five years old.

4. with, at (coinciding with a specific condition or event)

   Diese Tiere werden nur mit Einbruch der Dämmerung aktiv.

   These animals only become active at the break of dawn/start of dusk.

   1. with (accompanied by a certain behavior)

      Er stürzte sich mit einem wilden Schrei auf ihn.

      He flung himself at him with a savage yell.

   2. Used to describe the current activity or occupation with certain verbs.

      mit etwas anfangen ― to start doing something, to start with something (out of multiple options)

      mit etwas aufhören ― to stop doing something

      sich mit etwas beschäftigen ― to busy oneself doing something, to spend time doing something

5. (chiefly informal) regarding, having to do with

   Was ist mit mir? ― What about me?

   Das mit dem Beschwerdebrief sollten wir uns nochmal überlegen.

   The thing with the complaint letter, we should maybe think that over.

   Wie steht es mit den Finanzen?

   How are things regarding finances?

• In older usage, Latin-derived nouns occurred in the ablative case after mit, e.g. mit dem Corpore, mit dem Nomine.

• ohne

• mit- (see there for prefixed verbs)
• mitsamt

• → Kashubian: mët (dated)

mit

1. among; denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group

   Hier gibt es mit das beste Essen in der Stadt.

   Here they have some of the best food in town.

   Ich war mit der erste, der hier war.

   I was one of the very first who arrived.

2. also, too (in addition; besides; as well)
3. (somewhat informal) with (something), with it

   Ich brauch nicht unbedingt Mayonnaise zu den Fritten, aber mit sind sie natürlich besser.

   I don't necessarily need mayonnaise with the chips, but they taste better with it, of course.

• “mit”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

• Tim

mi (“what”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmit]

• Audio:

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mit

1. accusative singular of mi

   Mit gondolsz? ― What do you think?

2. (colloquial) why

   Mit szórakozol velem? ― Why (the hell) are you messing with me?

• nincs mit

From Middle High German mite, from Old High German mit.

• IPA^(key): /mit/

mit (+ dative)

1. with (in the company of; alongside)

   Komm mit meer.

   Come with me.

2. with, by (using as an instrument; by means of)

   Ich schreive mit em Lappis.

   I'm writing with a pencil.

   Meer sin mim Onnibus komm.

   We came by bus.

   Ich mache’s mit zimlicher Sicherheet.

   I do it with considerable certainty.

• ohne

• (mit + dem) mim

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /mit/

mit

1. small

mit (German Low German)

1. alternative spelling of mid

mit

1. alternative form of mid

mit

1. alternative form of mid

From Old Norse vit; the initial m comes from a rebracketing of m in the first person plural verb ending (e.g. hǫfum vit → reinterpreted as hǫfum mit). The Old Norse derives from a variant of Proto-Germanic *wet, *wit (“we”).

mit

1. alternative form of vit (“we (two)”)

   [...] mit wilium yder kunnich gera at mit warom a Berghi som ligger ij Folghkensborghe sokn a þorsdaghen ij paskæ viku [...]

   [...] we want to make it known to you that we were at Berg which lies in the parish of Folkenborg on Thursday during Holy Week [...]

• Norwegian Nynorsk: me

• Diplomatarium Norvegicum
• “me”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mik, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək.

mit

1. eye

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mit (“to go out”).

mit (stem II mih)

1. (of flames or light) to go out, be extinguished

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “mit”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

mit m (definite singular miten, indefinite plural miter, definite plural mitene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by midd

mit m (definite singular miten, indefinite plural mitar, definite plural mitane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of midd

• mid, midi, bit (rare)

From Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi, from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂, from *me (“with”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “among, between, with”), Sanskrit स्मत् (smat, “together, at the same time”).

mit

1. with

• midi

• Middle Dutch: met
  • Dutch: met
  • Limburgish: mit

• “mit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /mit/
• Rhymes: -it

mit

1. alternative form of mid

• miti

From Proto-West Germanic *midi. Akin to Old English mid, Old Saxon mid, Old Norse með.

mit

1. with

• Middle High German: mite, mit
  • Bavarian: mit
  • Cimbrian: met
  • German: mit
  • Hunsrik: mit
  • Luxembourgish: mat
  • Vilamovian: myt
  • Yiddish: מיט (mit)

mit

1. alternative form of mid

From Middle High German mite, from Old High German mit. Compare German mit, Dutch met, Swedish med.

mit

1. along

mit

1. with

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “myth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmit/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: mit

mit m inan

1. myth (traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience)
2. (figuratively) myth (commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception)

• “mit”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “mit”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos) or French mythe.

mit n (plural mituri)

1. myth (story)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “myth”).

mȋt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ми̑т)

1. myth

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mik from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək.

mit

1. eye

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

• mīt

From Proto-Tocharian *ḿət(ə), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“mead”). See also Old Chinese 蜜 (OC *mit, “honey”), which is possibly a borrowing from Tocharian.

mit

1. honey

From English meat.

mit

1. flesh, meat
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:23:

     Man i lukim meri na em i tok olsem, “Em nau. Em i poroman tru bilong mi. Bun bilong em i kamap long bun bilong mi, na mit bilong em i kamap long mit bilong mi. God i wokim em long bun bilong mi, olsem na bai mi kolim em ‘meri.’ ”

     →New International Version translation

Borrowed from French mythe.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmit/
• Hyphenation: mit

mit (definite accusative miti, plural mitler)

1. myth

   Synonyms: efsane, (dated) mitos

• “mit”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

mit (genitive mita, plural mits)

1. meat

• möt ( = de: Mett)

• “mit”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mik.

• IPA^(key): [mìt]
• Hyphenation: mit

mìt

1. eye

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 21
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41