Britt

britt English Pronunciation en /bɹɪt/ en ɪt 1 Proper noun en. en city s/Iowa. en unincorporated community s/Minnesota. en female. Danish Proper noun da female of Swedish and Norwegian origin Faroese Proper noun fo proper noun f fo female Usage notes f Brittarson Brittardóttir Declension Britt Britt Britt Brittar Luxembourgish Pronunciation lb [bʀit] lb it 1 Etymology 1 lb goh gem-pro From lb gmh *brüede, byform of gmh brüeje (whence de Brühe). The plosive is either the noun-forming suffix gmh -de, lb -t, or due to merger with related gmh brod n, from lb gmw-pro *broþ (whence en broth). Noun f broth Etymology 2 From lb de Brite (pronounced with short or long vowel). Noun m Brittin Briton, Brit, British person native of Great Britain lb Liquids Soups Middle Irish Etymology Borrowed from mga la Brittō. Noun m Briton Synonyms mga Breta Descendants ga briotach stammering, stuttering 1 mga Nationalities Norwegian Proper noun no female derived from Birgitta/Birgitte Swedish Etymology Short form of sv Britta, a contraction of sv Birgitta. First recorded in Sweden in 1883. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Britt.wav Proper noun c sv female Usage notes Often used in 20th century hyphenated names such as Britt-Marie, Maj-Britt, Ulla-Britt. References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 38 656 females with the given name Britt living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.