nipt

See also: NIPT

English

Etymology

nip +‎ -t

Verb

nipt

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of nip
   • 1852, James Rennie, George Glenny, The flower garden, its arrangement, cultivation and general management, page 61:

     […] the young shoots of the still hardier ivy, nipt and destroyed by an accidental night's frost in the early summer.

Anagrams

• INTP, Pint, pint

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪpt

Adjective

nipt (not comparable)

1. narrow

Declension

Declension of nipt
uninflected	nipt
inflected	nipte
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		nipt
indefinite	m./f. sing.	nipte
	n. sing.	nipt
	plural	nipte
definite		nipte
partitive		nipts

Verb

nipt

1. inflection of nippen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Adverb

nipt

1. narrowly

Anagrams

• pint

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *niftiz (“female relative”).

Noun

nipt f (genitive niptar)

1. female relative, kinswoman; sister; daughter

   nipt ok dísi nú mun ek telja: Snót, brúðr, svanni, svarri, sprakki, fljóð, sprund, kona, feima, ekkja, rýgr, víf ok drós, ristill, sæta, man, svarkr ok hæll, mær ok kerling.

   [terms for] kinswomen and ladies will I now name: Gentlewoman, bride, lady, proud lady, spark, woman, dame, female, sweet thing, widow, housewife, wife and sweetheart, slender lady, matron, bondswoman, haughty one and war-widow, maiden and old lady. (Nafnaþulur, kvenna heiti)

Descendants

• Icelandic: nift

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “nipt”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 455
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “nipt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive