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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of Italian italiano

Symbol

it

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Italian.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Italian terms

English

Alternative forms

  • hit (dialectal)
  • i' (colloquial)
  • itt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit (“it”)), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with West Frisian it (“it”), Saterland Frisian et, 't (“it”), Dutch het (“it”), Low German it (“it”), German es (“it”). Compare also Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰 (ita, “it”), Latin cis (“on this”), hic (“this”). More at he.

Pronunciation

  • (stressed)
    • (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪt/ enPR: ĭt
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɘt/
    • Rhymes: -ɪt
  • (unstressed)
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪt/, [ɪ̈t], [ɪt]
    • Rhymes: -ɪt
    • (General American) IPA(key): /ət/, [ɪ̈t], [ɪ̈ʔ], enPR: ət
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ət/
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɘt/
  • Homophone: at (unstressed) (General American, General Australian)

Pronoun

it (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive determiner and pronoun its, plural subjective they, plural objective case them)

  1. The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      It is not a pen. It is a book.
  2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
  3. (rare) A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an unspecified person.
    • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando, chapter 5:
      All these things inclined her, step by step, to submit to the new discovery, whether Queen Victoria's or another's, that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life, whom it supports, by whom it is supported, till death them do part.
  4. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
    • 1897, Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen), The Type-Writer Girl
      She caught my eye, and laughed. “What a funny girl it is!” she cried. “You are so comical! But it isn't the least use your trying to frighten me. I can see the twinkle in your big black eyes; and I like you in spite of your trying to be horrid. Do you know, I liked you from the first moment I saw you.”
  5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      Next morning bought her [a drag queen] breakfast & she asked for a couple dollars to get a drink. Gave her $3, walked her to a bar. […] Some teenage boys watched us walking & began shouting. When I left her at the bar door & kissed her goodbye, they began shouting "Ugh! You kissed it!!"
  6. Refers to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
  7. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
  8. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
    rough it
    live it up
    stick it out
    1. Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue.
      After all these years, she still has it.
    2. Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
      I caught them doing it.
      Are you getting it regularly?
  9. (uncountable) Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
  10. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
    (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
    It was felt that I'd be the right man for the job.
    (with the noun clause introduced by that)
    (with the gerund seeing)
    (with the noun clause introduced by that)
    (with the noun clause introduced by if)
  11. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
  12. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.

Usage notes

  • See Wiktionary:English inflection, Appendix:English pronouns and Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for other personal pronouns.
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:it.

Derived terms

Translations

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Determiner

it

  1. (obsolete) Its.

Noun

it (plural its)

  1. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
  3. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
  4. (British) A game of tag.
  5. (informal) A desirable characteristic, as being fashionable.
  6. (informal) Sexual intercourse.
  7. (informal) Sex appeal.
  8. Alternative letter-case form of It (“force in the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck”).
  9. Alternative letter-case form of It (“the id”).

Translations

Adjective

it (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue.

References

  • “it”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “it”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • TI, T&I, t͞i, Ti., ti

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Pronunciation

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itlər)

  1. dog

Declension

Derived terms

  • itbaz (“caninophile”)

See also

  • köpək

Further reading

  • “it” in Obastan.com.

Charrua

Noun

it

  1. fire

References

  • Rodolfo Maruca Sosa, La nación charrúa (1957)

Chuukese

Noun

it

  1. name

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *it, *ït.

Noun

it

  1. dog

Synonyms

  • köpek

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[5], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Hokkien

Irish

Alternative forms

  • id

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪt̪ˠ/

Contraction

it (triggers lenition)

  1. (Munster) contraction of i do (“in your”)

Related terms

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

  • hit (dialects without H-dropping)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /it/
  • Hyphenation: it

Etymology 1

Derived from English it. Compare English hit, Gullah i, Antigua and Barbuda Creole English it, Guyanese Creole English ii, Hawaiian Creole it, Nigerian Pidgin it, Vincentian Creole English e, Yola yt, Old English ġit, Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronoun

it

  1. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
  2. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
Usage notes

Neutral form, contrasting with i in unstressed positions and hit in stressed position.

Etymology 2

Derived from English hit.

Verb

it

  1. (rare) to hit (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    Synonym: lik

References

Further reading

  • it at majstro.com

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ɨt.

Noun

it

  1. dog, hound

References

  • N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “it”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪt]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈit̪]

Verb

it

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of eō

Latvian

Particle

it

  1. used to assign accentuation to expression
    it sevišķi ― especially
    it nekas ― nothing at all
    it nekur ― nowhere at all
    it nemaz ― not at all
    it kā ― as if

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

  1. alternative form of het

Middle English

Pronoun

it

  1. alternative form of hit (“it”)

Determiner

it

  1. alternative form of hit (“it”)

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon it, from Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪt/, /ət/

Pronoun

it

  1. (third person singular neuter nominative) it
  2. (third person singular neuter accusative) it

Declension

Descendants

  • Low German: et, it
  • Plautdietsch: et

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈih(t)/

Verb

it

  1. second-person singular present of ii

Old English

Alternative forms

  • yt, ytt, et, ett, eteþ, ieteþ, yteþ, iteþ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /it/

Verb

it

  1. third-person singular present indicative of etan

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • (second-person singular form) at

Pronunciation

  • (second-person singular form) IPA(key): /it/
  • (third-person plural form) IPA(key): /id/

Verb

it

  1. inflection of is:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jit, North-West Germanic form of *jut. Cognate with Old English ġit, Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐍄 (jut).

Pronoun

it

  1. (personal) second-person dual pronoun; you two

Declension

Descendants

The Western descendants derive from þit, due to influence of the 2nd plural ending -ð. Compare þér (“you (plural)”).

  • ⇒ Old Norse: þit
    • Icelandic: þið
    • Faroese: tit
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: de, did
  • Elfdalian: ið
  • Old Swedish: it
    • Finland Swedish: et, ät

References

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *it.

Pronoun

it n

  1. it

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: it
    • Low German: et, it
    • Plautdietsch: et

Piedmontese

Pronoun

it

  1. you (singular)

Sathmar Swabian

Adverb

it

  1. not

References

  • Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈit]

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ایت (it), from Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”). Compare Yakut ыт (ıt, “dog”).

Noun

it (definite accusative iti, plural itler)

  1. (often derogatory or dialectal) dog
  2. (derogatory) scoundrel, detestable person, cur
Usage notes

Not historically derogatory, and still used as the primary term for "dog" in the countryside. Usually, if a dog is a stray or feral, it can be referred to as "it" as well. The more usual word is köpek, which is also pejorative and derogatory when used for a person.

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

it

  1. second-person singular imperative of itmek

Turkmen

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Noun

it (definite accusative idi, plural itler)

  1. dog

Declension

Further reading

  • “it” in Enedilim.com
  • “it” in Webonary.org

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Noun

it (plural itlar)

  1. dog

Declension

Volapük

Determiner

it

  1. (with a personal pronoun) self; myself; yourself; himself; herself; itself; ourselves; themselves; emphasises the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • iti
  • i ti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

  1. (literary) second-person singular of i

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪt/
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /(ə)t/

Pronoun

it

  1. it (third-person singular neuter pronoun)
Inflection
Further reading
  • “it (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian thet, from Proto-Germanic *þat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(ə)t/

Determiner

it

  1. neuter singular of de

Yola

Alternative forms

  • yt
  • t' (misspelling)

Etymology

From Middle English hit, from Old English hit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪt/

Pronoun

it

  1. it

Derived terms

  • tis
  • it's
  • 'twas
  • mai't
  • lee it

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 一 (MC 'jit, “one”). Cognate with Thai เอ็ด (èt), Lao ເອັດ (ē ʼat), Shan ဢဵတ်း (ʼáet), Ahom 𑜒𑜢𑜄𑜫 (ʼit), Bouyei idt.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ʔit˥/
  • Tone numbers: it7
  • Hyphenation: it

Numeral

it (1957–1982 spelling it)

  1. one

Usage notes

Used with ngeih rather than song.

Synonyms

  • ndeu

Source: wiktionary.org