hit – English noun declension

English noun forms of hit

Noun: hit
Singularhit
Pluralhits

Sample Sentences

  • So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd. [1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
  • The hit was very slight.
  • Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season[…] [1848, “Her Majesty's Theatre”, in The Musical World, volume 23:]
  • Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met. [2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
  • But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater. [2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:]
  • My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
  • The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
  • Where am I going to get my next hit?
  • The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered. [2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • a happy hit
  • What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit. [1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti
4. Proto-Germanic *hittijaną
5. Old Norse hittader.
6. Old English hyttan
7. Middle English hitten
8. English hit
9. Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit, encounter”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”). Probably also related to Dutch hei (“mallet”), German Heie (“wooden hammer, mallet”).
12. (something very successful): Compare typologically striking, Russian порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) (<~ порази́ть (porazítʹ) <~ рази́ть (razítʹ)). See: Old English Nouns 'hittan', Old Norse Nouns 'hitta', Latin Nouns 'caedō', Dutch Nouns 'hei'.

Verbs referencing "hit"

English Nouns it, Catalan Nouns hit, Danish Nouns hit, Dutch Nouns hit, Romanian Nouns hit, Swedish Nouns hit, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns hitt, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hitt, Finnish Nouns hitti, English Nouns schlager, German Nouns Schlager, Russian Nouns хит, German Nouns Hit, Icelandic Nouns smellur.