Kitt

• As an English surname, from Kit, a pet form of Christopher; also from kit (“vessel of hooped staves”).
• As a German surname, from kit (“sprout, offshoot”), from Middle High German kīde, from Old High German *chīdi, from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout, seedling”). Compare Alemannic German chiide.

Kitt

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Jay County, Indiana, United States.
3. Alternative spelling of Kit (the diminutive of Christopher)

• Kitt Green
• Kitts Green

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kitt”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 312.

From Middle High German küt, küte, from Old High German kuti, quiti, kwiti, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz.

• IPA^(key): /kɪt/

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Kitt m (strong, genitive Kittes or Kitts, plural Kitte)

1. putty (certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes)

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