hit

Where “hit” sits in English frequency

Definition

1. 1
   To strike.
2. 2
   To strike.
3. 3
   To strike.
4. 4
   To strike.
5. 5
   To strike.
6. 6
   To strike.
7. 7
   To strike.
8. 8
   To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
9. 9
   To switch on or switch off (lights).
10. 10
    To commence playing.
11. 11
    To briefly visit.
12. 12
    To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
13. 13
    To attain, to achieve.
14. 14
    To attain, to achieve.
15. 15
    To attain, to achieve.
16. 16
    To affect negatively.
17. 17
    To attack.
18. 18
    To make a play.
19. 19
    To make a play.
20. 20
    To make a play.
21. 21
    To use; to connect to.
22. 22
    To have sex with.
23. 23
    To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
24. 24
    (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
25. 25
    To work out.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti Proto-Germanic *hittijaną Old Norse hittader. Old English hyttan Middle English hitten English hit 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”). Cognates 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”).

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