different between tuit vs tuite

English

Etymology

A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.

Noun

tuit (plural tuits)

1. (humorous) Synonym of round tuit
   • 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <[email protected]>, "Tuit", message-ID <[email protected]>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:

     THIS IS A TUIT

   • 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <[email protected]>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <[email protected]>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet [2]:

     My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.

   • 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <[email protected]>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <[email protected]>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet [3]:

     1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.

Anagrams

• ITU-T

Catalan

Etymology

Spanish tuit

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tujt/

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

1. (Internet) tweet (post on Twitter)

   Synonym: piulada

Derived terms

• tuitejar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tœy?t/
• Hyphenation: tuit
• Rhymes: -œy?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Further origin unknown.

Noun

tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)

1. a spout
2. (obsolete) lock of hair

Derived terms

• schenktuit

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tuit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tuit

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

Finnish

Verb

tuit

1. Second-person singular indicative past form of tukea.

Anagrams

• tiut, tuti

Irish

Noun

tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)

1. Alternative form of toit (“smoke”)

Declension

Verb

tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)

1. Alternative form of tit (“fall”)

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tuit" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old French

Adjective

tuit m

1. nominative singular of tot (“all”)

Adverb

tuit

1. nominative singular of tot (“all; completely”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut?/

Verb

·tuit

1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of do·tuit

tuit

1. second-person singular present imperative of do·tuit

Mutation

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• tot, tuih

Adjective

tuit

1. all; every

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish do·tuit (“falls”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?u?t?], /t??u?t??/

Verb

tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)

1. fall
2. happen, befall, chance
3. stumble, slip
4. subside
5. sink
6. set (as the sun)
7. benight
8. be seduced by
9. fail
10. damp

Mutation

References

• “tuit” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 do-tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Etymology

Created by the Fundación del Español Urgente in order to have a more Hispanic word rather than adopting "tweet" from English. Added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española in 2015.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twit/, [?t?wit?]

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

1. (computing) tweet (post on Twitter)

Related terms

Further reading

• “tuit” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

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Noun

tuite

1. (mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Tuite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Dutch

Verb

tuite

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tuiten

Anagrams

• uitte

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???t??/

Noun

tuite

1. genitive singular of tuit

Participle

tuite

1. Alternative form of tite (past participle of tit)

Verb

tuite

1. Alternative form of tite (present subjunctive analytic of tit)

Mutation

Latin

Participle

tuite

1. vocative masculine singular of tuitus