guit

From Frankish *wiht (“thing, creature”). Cognate with English wight.

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

guit (feminine guita, masculine plural guits, feminine plural guites)

1. bucking, that kicks (of a horse or mule)

• guitar

• guitza

• “guit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Middle Dutch guyte, probably from ghoiten (“to berate”), gu(i)ten (“to make fun of”), possibly from Old Norse gautan (“drivel”), gauta (“to talk a lot”), connected with Old High German gauzen, gäuzen (“to namecall”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to yawn, gape”).

Also compared is Norwegian gutt (“boy”), but this could be a reverse borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ɣœy̯t/

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• Hyphenation: guit
• Rhymes: -œy̯t

guit m (plural guiten, diminutive guitje n)

1. tomboy, rascal, joker, troublemaker

   De guit krijgt een spuit. ― The rascal receives an injection.

• deugniet, kapoen, schalk

• guitig

• Études germaniques, Volume 61 (2006)
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “guit”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1259

• IPA^(key): /ɡit/

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guit f (plural guits)

1. (colloquial, Quebec) guitar