kittel

See also: Kittel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish קיטל (kitl).

Noun

kittel (plural kittels)

1. A white linen or cotton robe worn by religious Ashkenazi Jews on holidays, in the synagogue, or at home when leading the Passover seder.
   • 2008, Mordechai Schmutter, Don’t Yell Challah in a Crowded Matzah Bakery:

     When I got married, my grandmother showed up at the wedding with a bottle of the whitest wine she could find, so that we wouldn’t ruin my seventy-five dollar kittel and my wife’s thousand-dollar wedding dress. (And at this point I would like to point out that I have worn my kittel at least twice a year since then, not counting the Purim that I dressed up as a doctor, and my wife has not worn her wedding dress at all, not even to other people’s weddings.)

Anagrams

• kittle, Kittle

Danish

Noun

kittel c

1. white coat (as worn during work in a laboratory or medical work)

Declension

Declension of kittel

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kittel	kitlen	kitler	kitlerne
genitive	kittels	kitlens	kitlers	kitlernes

Swedish

kittlar

Etymology

From Old Norse ketill, from Proto-Germanic *katilaz, from Late Latin catillus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɪtːɛl/

Noun

kittel c

1. a cauldron, a kettle (large cooking vessel)
   • 1936, Evert Taube, “Byssan lull”‎^[1]:

     Byssan lull, koka kittelen [kitteln] full, där kommer tre vandringsmän på vägen. Byssan lull, koka kittelen [kitteln] full, där kommer tre vandringsmän på vägen. Den ene är så halt, den andre är så blind, den tredje har så trasiga kläder.

     Byssan lull ["lull lull!", to lull (a child) to sleep – usually "vyssan lull"], cook ["boil," but also used for cooking through boiling] the cauldron full, [over] there comes three wanderers on the road. Byssan lull, cook the cauldron full, [over] there comes three wanderers on the road. One is so halt [limping, lame], the other is so blind [sic – "so blind" sounds the same in Swedish], the third has such tattered clothes [Ene/andre is usually used of two people, like in English, but occasionally of more people].

Declension

Declension of kittel

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kittel	kittels
	definite	kitteln	kittelns
plural	indefinite	kittlar	kittlars
	definite	kittlarna	kittlarnas

Derived terms

• häxkittel (“witch's cauldron”)

References

• “kittel”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “kittel”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• kittel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)