English

Verb

nipt

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of nip
   • 1852, James Rennie, ‎George Glenny, The flower garden, its arrangement, cultivation and general management (page 61)

     […] the young shoots of the still hardier ivy, nipt and destroyed by an accidental night's frost in the early summer.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪpt

Adjective

nipt ‎(not comparable)

1. narrow

Inflection

Verb

nipt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of nippen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of nippen

Adverb

nipt

1. narrowly

Anagrams

• pint

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *niftiz ‎(“niece”). Sometimes appears as nift.

Noun

nipt f (genitive niptar)

1. kinswoman

   Heil Nótt ok nipt!‎

   Hail Night and her kinswoman!

References

• nipt in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press