geit

From Middle Dutch geit, from Old Dutch *geit, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɛi̯t/

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• Hyphenation: geit
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯t

geit f (plural geiten, diminutive geitje n)

1. goat, any member of the genus Capra
2. goat (Capra aegagrus) or the domesticated goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)
3. any female of the genus Capra or of the above (sub)species
4. (informal, mildly derogatory) a silly or foolish person, particularly said of girls or adolescent women

• Afrikaans: geit

• giet

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /kaiːt/

  Rhymes: -aiːt

geit f (genitive singular geitar, plural geitir)

1. goat

• geitarbukkur
• geithavur
• geitarostur

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /ceiːt/

  Rhymes: -eiːt

geit f (genitive singular geitar, nominative plural geitur)

1. a goat

• IPA^(key): /ɟɛtʲ/

geit f (genitive singular geite, nominative plural geiteanna)

1. a jump, a start

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “geit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 24

geit

1. alternative form of ȝit

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /jæɪ̯t/

geit f or m (definite singular geita or geiten, indefinite plural geiter, definite plural geitene)

1. a goat

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.

• geitebukk

• “geit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /jɛɪːt/

geit f (definite singular geita, indefinite plural geiter, definite plural geitene)

1. a goat
2. teat, breast
3. a nickname for women

• boargeit
• geitebukk
• geitrams
• jasegeit

• “geit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *gaits (“goat”), likely from a substrate language.

geit f (genitive geitar, plural geitr)

1. a she-goat

• Icelandic: geit
• Faroese: geit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: geit
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: geit
• Old Swedish: gēt, ᚵᚽᛏ
  • Swedish: get
• Old Danish: gēt
  • Danish: ged
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gjet (obsolete)
• Elfdalian: djiet
• Gutnish: gait

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “geit”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Frisian *gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

Cognate with Dutch geit, English goat, German Geiß.

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /ɡai̯t/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /ɡɛi̯t/

geit c (plural geiten, diminutive geitsje)

1. goat

• “geit”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011