different between kist vs kitt

English

Etymology 1

Verb

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of kiss
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet,

     To me my Julia lately sent
     A Bracelet richly Redolent
     The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
     That did perfume the Pomander.

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old Norse kista (chest); but see also cist (“crypt”).

Noun

kist (plural kists)

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]

2. (Scotland) A coffin.

Verb

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

Derived terms

• kist o' whistles

Anagrams

• kits, skit, tisk

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/
• Hyphenation: kist
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch kiste, from Old Dutch *kista, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh?.

Noun

kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)

1. A box, chest.

   Synonym: koffer

2. A coffin.

   Synonyms: doodskist, lijkkist

3. (aviation, informal) An aeroplane.
4. (informal) A boot or large shoe, especially an army boot.

Derived terms

• kisten (verb)

- chest types

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kis
• ? Sranan Tongo: kisi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kisten
2. imperative of kisten

Anagrams

• stik

Middle English

Noun

kist

1. A Alternative form of cheste (“chest”).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (kist?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîst/

Noun

k?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. A brush.

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French kyste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?cist/
• Hyphenation: kist

Noun

kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)

1. (medicine) A cyst.

Declension

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

kitt (plural kitts)

1. (Britain, birdwatching) the kittiwake.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Kitt

Noun

kitt n (definite singular kittet, indefinite plural kitt, definite plural kitta or kittene)

1. putty

References

• “kitt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kitt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Kitt

Noun

kitt n (definite singular kittet, indefinite plural kitt, definite plural kitta)

1. putty

References

• “kitt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kietë, from Proto-Uralic *käte.

Noun

kitt

1. hand
2. arm

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland