itt
English
Phrase
itt
- (Internet slang) Initialism of in this thread or in this topic.
Pronoun
itt
- Obsolete spelling of it.
- 1657, October 3, William Clarke, Letters from Flanders; reprinted in:
- 1899, William Clarke, edited by Charles Harding Firth, The Clarke Papers: Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, Camden Society, page 120:
- Itt hath indeed bin intended by the French army to lay siege to […] and in order thereunto a conquest hath bin made of the sconce Mardyk, which did nott indure siege above 2 dayes before itt yielded uppon discretion,1 but since the taking thereof the resolution of beseiging Dunkirk beginneth to slacken, and I suppose will bee quitte layd aside for this […]
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
Lexicalization of the earlier i variant of the e demonstrative pronoun + -tt (locative suffix).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈitː]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -itː
Adverb
itt (not comparable)
- (demonstrative) here, over here (in this place)
- Coordinate term: (there) ott
- Itt születtem. ― I was born here.
Derived terms
Expressions
See also
1 Semhogy and semmint are conjunctions meaning “(rather) than”, “before” (as in inkább meghal, semhogy… ― he'll rather die than…).
2 Valamint is now only used in the sense of “as well as” in enumerations.
3 Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig).
Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”).
References
- ^ itt in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
- ^ itt in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
Further reading
- itt in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Middle English
Pronoun
itt
- alternative form of hit (“it”)
Determiner
itt
- alternative form of hit (“it”)
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /itt/, [it]
Verb
itt
- third-person singular present indicative of etan
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /itː/
Adverb
itt (not comparable)
- (Ostrobothnia, colloquial) Dialectical form of the word inte