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fitt

Pronunciation: /fitt/

“fitt” is an Old English word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. poem, song
  2. conflict

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fittju, from Proto-Germanic *fitjō (“foot, seam”) and *fitī (“section, segment, chapter”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pedio-. Cognate with Old Saxon *fittea, attested in the borrowed Latin vittea.

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