Geit in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Geit

You can make 15 words from 'geit' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'geit'
• 3 letters words from 'geit'
• 2 letters words from 'geit'

4 letters words from 'geit'

GEIT 5	GITE 5
TIGE 5

3 letters words from 'geit'

GET 4	GIE 4
GIT 4	TEG 4
TIE 3	TIG 4

2 letters words from 'geit'

ET 2	GI 3
IT 2	TE 2
TI 2

Definitions and meaning of geit

geit

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch geit, from Old Dutch *geit, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɛi̯t/
• Hyphenation: geit
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯t

Noun

geit f (plural geiten, diminutive geitje n)

1. goat, any member of the genus Capra
2. goat (Capra aegagrus) or the domesticated goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)
3. Any female of the genus Capra or of the above (sub)species.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: geit

Anagrams

• giet

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaiːt/

  Rhymes: -aiːt

Noun

geit f (genitive singular geitar, plural geitir)

1. goat

Declension

Derived terms

• geitarbukkur
• geithavur
• geitarostur

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ceiːt/

  Rhymes: -eiːt

Noun

geit f (genitive singular geitar, nominative plural geitur)

1. a goat

Declension

Derived terms

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟɛtʲ/

Noun

geit f (genitive singular geite, nominative plural geiteanna)

1. a jump, a start

Declension

Mutation

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Middle English

Pronoun

geit

1. Alternative form of ȝit

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæɪ̯t/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

geit f or m (definite singular geita or geiten, indefinite plural geiter, definite plural geitene)

1. a goat

Derived terms

• geitebukk

References

• “geit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæɪt/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

geit f (definite singular geita, indefinite plural geiter, definite plural geitene)

1. a goat

Derived terms

• geitebukk

References

• “geit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaits (“goat”), likely from a substrate language.

Noun

geit f (genitive geitar, plural geitr)

1. a she-goat

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: geit
• Faroese: geit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: geit
• Norwegian Bokmål: geit
• Old Swedish: gēt
  • Swedish: get
• Old Danish: gēt
  • Danish: ged
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gjet
• Westrobothnian: gejt, djait
• Elfdalian: djiet
• Helsingian: gjótt
• Gutnish: gait

References

• geit in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /ɡai̯t/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /ɡɛi̯t/

Noun

geit c (plural geiten, diminutive geitsje)

1. goat

Further reading

• “geit”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org

• (Scots) a child.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)