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et

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English Online Dictionary. What means et‎? What does et mean?

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly from either an Abbreviation of English Estonian or Estonian eesti

Symbol

et

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Estonian.

English

Etymology

From Middle English et, from Old English æt, first and third person singular indicative of Old English etan (“to eat”). Doublet of ate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Verb

et

  1. (informal, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of ate, the simple past and past participle of eat
    • 1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective [3]:
      So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast.
    • 1946 February 18, Life magazine:
      It must have been somethin’ I et!

Anagrams

  • TE, te

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • etje

Etymology

Uncertain. Attested as "het" in Bogdani. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *i̯et (“to set out for; to strive”). Compare Old Irish ét (“thirst”), Irish éad (“eagerness, jealousy”), Latin sitis (“thirst”), Tocharian A yat (“reach, get”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *eus-ti-, cognate to Greek αἰτέω (aitéō, “to demand, to beg”). Orel suggests Proto-Albanian *alk-ti-, drawing comparisons to Lithuanian álkti (“to be hungry”), Proto-Slavic *olkati (“id.”), and Old High German ilgi (“hunger”).

Noun

et f (plural etje, definite etja, definite plural etjet)

  1. thirst

References

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tē (accusative of tū).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ət/
  • (Valencia) IPA(key): /et/

Pronoun

et (proclitic, contracted t', enclitic te, contracted enclitic 't)

  1. you, thee (singular, direct or indirect object)

Usage notes

  • et is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs beginning with a consonant.
    Et perdràs. ― You'll get lost.

Declension

Related terms

  • te
  • tu

Chuukese

Numeral

et

  1. (serial counting) one

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German iezuo, ieze, iezō, from Old High German iozou, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *juta. Cognate with German itzo (modern jetzt), English yet.

Adverb

et

  1. (Sette Comuni) now

Related terms

  • éttor

References

  • “et” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *et.

Noun

et

  1. meat

Declension

References

  • https://classes.ru/all-crtatar/dictionary-crtatar-russian-cyr-term-14187.htm
  • “et”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eitt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /et/, [ed̥]

Article

et (common en)

  1. (neuter) a, an

Emilian

Etymology

From Latin tū (“you”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /et/
  • Hyphenation: et

Pronoun

et (personal, nominative case)

  1. you (singular)

Alternative forms

  • Becomes t- before a vowel.
  • Becomes -et when acting as an enclitic (after a consonant).
  • Becomes -t when acting as an enclitic (after a vowel).

Related terms

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *että (compare Finnish että), from the same Proto-Uralic root *e- (“this”) as Hungarian ez.

Conjunction

et

  1. that
  2. to, in order to, so that, as to

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eːʰt]

Verb

et

  1. singular imperative of eta

Anagrams

  • te

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈet/, [ˈe̞t̪]
  • Rhymes: -et
  • Hyphenation(key): et

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

et

  1. second-person singular indicative of ei
See also
  • etkö

Etymology 2

Conjunction

et (colloquial)

  1. (subordinating) Apocopic form of että

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin et (“and”).

Conjunction

et

  1. (coordinating) And, especially as symbolized by an ampersand.

Anagrams

  • Te, te

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin et.

Conjunction

et (ORB, broad)

  1. and

References

  • et in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • et in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French et, from Old French et, from Latin et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Homophones: ai, eh, hé

Conjunction

et

  1. and

Usage notes

  • et is never subject to liaison with a following word, i.e. the t is never pronounced.

Descendants

  • Mauritian Creole: e, ek
  • → English: et

Further reading

  • “et”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • te

Ingrian

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈet/, [ˈe̞d]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈet/, [ˈe̞d̥]
  • (Hevaha) IPA(key): /ˈet/, [ˈe̞d̥]
  • Rhymes: -et
  • Hyphenation: et

Verb

et

  1. second-person singular present of ei

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[6], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 128
  • Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 24
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[7], →ISBN, page 95

Italian

Etymology

From Latin et (“and; plus”).

Pronunciation

  • (before consonants) IPA(key): /e/*
  • (before vowels) IPA(key): /e.t‿/

Conjunction

et

  1. (archaic, poetic) Alternative form of e

Further reading

  • et in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

  • te, tè

Latin

Alternative forms

  • &, ⁊
  • ed (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti or Proto-Indo-European *h₁eti.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔτι (éti), Sanskrit अति (ati), Gothic 𐌹𐌸 (iþ, “and, but, however, yet”), Old English prefix ed- (“re-”). More at ed-.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /et/, [ɛt̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /et/, [ɛt̪]
  • Homophone: -et

Conjunction

et

  1. and
  2. (mathematics) plus
  3. (literary) though, even if

Usage notes

  • When used in pairs, et...et may function like English both...and.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:et.

Synonyms

  • (and): -que
  • (and): atque

Derived terms

Descendants

Adverb

et (not comparable)

  1. also, too, besides, or likewise
    Synonym: quoque

References

  • et in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • et in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • et in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Livvi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈet/
  • Hyphenation: et
  • Rhymes: -et

Verb

et

  1. second-person singular indicative of ei

References

  • N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎[8] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 20
  • Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 142
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “ei”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 38

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit. Cognate with German es, English it, Dutch het.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /et/, [ət]
    • Rhymes: -ət

Pronoun

et

  1. Reduced form of hatt (“she, her; it”)

Declension

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /et/, /ət/

Pronoun

et

  1. Alternative form of het

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French et.

Conjunction

et

  1. and

Descendants

  • French: et
    • Mauritian Creole: e, ek
    • → English: et

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛt/, /ət/

Pronoun

et

  1. Alternative form of it.

Declension

Norman

Etymology

From Old French et, from Latin et.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

et

  1. (Jersey) and

Noun

et m (plural ets)

  1. (Jersey) ampersand

Synonyms

  • ampèrsand

North Frisian

Pronoun

et

  1. (Mooring, Sylt) Reduced form of hat (“it”, subject)
  2. (Mooring) Reduced form of ham (“it”, object)
  3. (Sylt) Reduced form of höm (“it”, object)

Usage notes

  • The form et is always unstressed, but not necessarily enclitic like other reduced forms.

Alternative forms

  • 't (enclitic)
  • at (Föhr-Amrum)

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse eitt, the nominative and accusative form of einn. The indefinite article was not used in Old Norse and was likely an influence from other Germanic languages.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛt/

Article

et n (neuter indefinite article used with neuter nouns)

  1. a, an (the neuter indefinite article)
Related terms
  • ei (feminine indefinite article)
  • en (masculine indefinite article)
  • ett (neuter form of cardinal number)

See also

  • eit (Nynorsk) (neuter indefinite article)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eːt/

Verb

et

  1. imperative of ete

References

  • “et” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

et

  1. inflection of eta:
    1. present
    2. imperative

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /et/

Verb

et

  1. singular imperative of etan

Old French

Alternative forms

  • e

Etymology

From Latin et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e/
    • The t in this word is merely an adoption of the Latin spelling and was never actually pronounced in Old French, except in the earliest texts, where it is pronounced before a vowel-initial word.

Conjunction

et

  1. and

Descendants

  • Middle French: et
    • French: et
      • Mauritian Creole: e, ek
      • → English: et
  • Norman: et
  • Picard: et
  • Walloon: et, eyet

Old Norse

Verb

et

  1. inflection of eta:
    1. first-person singular present active indicative
    2. second-person singular present active imperative

Pipil

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl etl (“bean”).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈet/

Noun

et (plural ehet)

  1. bean

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *et. Cognate with Turkish et.

Pronunciation

  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [eʰt]
  • (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [eʰtʰ]
  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [æt]
  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [et]

Noun

et

  1. meat, flesh

References

  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ät, eʼt, et”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 300, 328
  • Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “et”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 105
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “eʰt”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎[10], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 90

Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

  • 't

Etymology

From Old Frisian et, hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit. Cognates include West Frisian it and Dutch het.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ət/
  • Hyphenation: et

Pronoun

et

  1. unstressed form of dät (“it”)

Derived terms

See also

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “et”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scots

Noun

et (plural ets)

  1. Shetland form of aet

References

  • “et, n.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Semai

Pronoun

et

  1. they (3rd person plural pronoun)

Synonyms

  • mambééq (Bota)
  • ennaay

See also

References

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈet/ [ˈet̪]
  • Rhymes: -et
  • Syllabification: et

Noun

et m (plural ets)

  1. ampersand
    Synonym: y comercial

Further reading

  • “et”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English eight.

Numeral

et

  1. eight

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also etpela.

Coordinate terms

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ات (et, “meat, flesh, pulp”), from Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /et/

Noun

et (definite accusative eti, plural etler)

  1. The muscle and fat tissue in humans and animals; meat, flesh.
  2. The muscle tissue in animals used as food.
  3. The muscle tissue of specifically beef or lamb used as food.
    et döner ― beef/lamb döner
  4. Bare skin on body.
  5. The soft, edible part of a fruit between the skin and the core.

Declension

Derived terms

  • etli
  • etobur
  • etçil
  • etyemez
  • et suyu
  • et kafalı

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

et

  1. second-person singular imperative of etmek

References

Further reading

  • “et”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *et.

Noun

et (plural etlar)

  1. flesh
  2. meat

Veps

Verb

et

  1. second-person plural present of ei

Walloon

Alternative forms

  • eyet

Etymology

From Old French et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ/

Conjunction

et

  1. and

Yola

Conjunction

et

  1. Alternative form of at (“that?”)

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38

Zhuang

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ʔeːt˧˥/
  • Tone numbers: et7
  • Hyphenation: et

Noun

et (Sawndip form 𬖋, 1957–1982 spelling et)

  1. steamed leaf-wrapped cake made of glutinous rice paste

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