Britt

See also: britt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Proper noun

Britt

1. A surname.
2. A city in Iowa
3. An unincorporated community in Minnesota
4. A female given name

Danish

Proper noun

Britt

1. a female given name of Swedish and Norwegian origin

Faroese

Proper noun

Britt f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Britt: Brittarson
• daughter of Britt: Brittardóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Britt
accusative	Britt
dative	Britt
genitive	Brittar

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *broþ, Proto-Germanic *bruþą. Cognate with English broth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʀit/
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

Britt f (plural Britten)

1. broth

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Brittō.

Noun

Britt m

1. Briton

Synonyms

• Breta

Derived terms

• brittach (“stammering, stuttering”)

Norwegian

Proper noun

Britt

1. a female given name derived from Birgitta/Birgitte

Swedish

Etymology

Short form of Britta, a contraction of Birgitta. First recorded in Sweden in 1883.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Britt c (genitive Britts)

1. a female given name

Usage notes

• Often used in 20th century hyphenated names such as Britt-Marie, Maj-Britt, Ulla-Britt.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 38 656 females with the given name Britt living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.