English Explanatory Dictionary

Kitt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Jay County, Indiana, United States.
  3. Alternative spelling of Kit (the diminutive of Christopher)
noun
  1. the kittiwake.

Word forms

Kitt kitts

Etymology

* As an English surname, from Kit, a pet form of Christopher; also from kit (“vessel of hooped staves”). * As a German surname, from kit (“sprout, offshoot”), from Middle High German kīde, from Old High German *chīdi, from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout, seedling”). Compare Alemannic German chiide.

Derived words

Kitt Green Kitts Green
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