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語源 1

From 中期英語 brytten, brutten, from 古期英語 brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to 古期英語 brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), 古期英語 brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).

別の表記

• britt
• brite (dialectal)

動詞

brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)

1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.

派生語

• britten
• brittle

語源 2

Probably from 中期英語 bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

別の表記

• britt

名詞

brit (plural brit)

1. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
2. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

語源 3

Borrowed from Hebrew בְּרִית

別の表記

• bris

名詞

brit (plural brits)

1. brit milah
2. A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people.
   • 2000, David Golinkin, “The Whys and Hows of Conservative Halakhah”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 14:

     The second theocentric approach to observance stresses the partnership of God and man. The Torah and the mitzvot express the eternal brit or covenant made between God and the Jewish people.

   • 2005, Joel Lurie Grishaver, Jewish Values Alef to Tav, page 13:

     There is a special brit between God and the Families-of-Israel. The Torah is the story of that brit

   • 2020, Aaron Chaim HaLevi Zimmerman, Torah & Rationalism, page 120:

     When the Jews were expelled from Eretz Yisrael into galus, and were punished for their sins with the destruction of the first and second Temples, the bris between G-d and Yisrael is not ended.

関連する語

アナグラム

• trib, Trib, BIRT, trib., Birt, birt

発音

• IPA: /bɹɪt/
• 韻: -ɪt

接頭辞

Brit-

1. British

   Britart, Britpop

派生語

アナグラム

• trib, Trib, BIRT, trib., Birt, birt