guit

From Frankish *wiht (“thing, creature”). Cognate with English wight.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡit]

guit (feminine guita, masculine plural guits, feminine plural guites)

1. bucking, that kicks (of a horse or mule)

• guitar

• guitza

• “guit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Middle Dutch guyte, probably from ghoiten (“to berate”), gu(i)ten (“to make fun of”), possibly from Old Norse gautan (“drivel”), gauta (“to talk a lot”), connected with Old High German gauzen, gäuzen (“to namecall”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to yawn, gape”). Doublet of geus.

Also compared is Norwegian gutt (“boy”), but this could be a reverse borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ɣœy̯t/

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• Hyphenation: guit
• Rhymes: -œy̯t

guit m (plural guiten, diminutive guitje n)

1. tomboy, rascal, joker, troublemaker

   De guit krijgt een spuit. ― The rascal receives an injection.

• deugniet, kapoen, schalk

• guitig

• Italian: guitto

• Études germaniques, Volume 61 (2006)
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guit”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1259”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1259

• IPA^(key): /ɡit/

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guit f (plural guits)

1. (colloquial, Quebec) guitar