berit

See also: Berit

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew בְּרִית (brit).

Noun

berit m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ברית)

1. (Judaism) brit milah, bris

Synonyms

• brit milá (ברית מילה)

Further reading

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “berit”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “berít, berít milá”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, pages 87–88
• Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “berit milá”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 65

Volapük

Etymology

From ber- (“bunting”) +‎ -it (“bird morpheme”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be.ˈɾit]

Noun

berit (nominative plural berits)

1. bunting (bird)

Declension

declension of berit

	singular	plural
nominative	berit	berits
genitive	berita	beritas
dative	berite	berites
accusative	beriti	beritis
vocative 1	o berit!	o berits!
predicative 2	beritu	beritus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• hiberit
• jiberit
• beritil
• beritül

Derived terms

• ridaberit (“reed bunting”), Emberiza schoeniclus
• yelovaberit (“yellowhammer”), Emberiza citrinella