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titEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin. Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗titEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Perhaps imitative of light tap. Compare earlier tip for tap (“blow for blow”), from tip + tap; compare also dialectal tint for tant.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗titEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; found earliest in titling and titmouse; compare Faroese títlingur, dialectal Norwegian titling (“small stockfish”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- TitEnglish · e-38700-5147
Tit, tit, n. a teat.
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Tit, tit, n. one of various small birds, a pipit, tomtit, or titmouse. [Ice. tittr, a little bird, Norw. tita.]
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Tit, tit, n. in phrase Tit for tat, properly tip for tap, blow for blow.
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