et
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
et
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English et, from Old English æt, first and third person singular indicative of Old English etan (“to eat”). Doublet of ate.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
et
- (informal, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of ate, the simple past tense and past participle of eat
- 1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective [2]:
- So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast.
- 1907, O. Henry, Seats of the Haughty [3]:
- 'Boss,' says the cabby, 'I et a steak in that restaurant once. If you're real hungry, I advise you to try the saddle-shops first.'
- 1919, Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Long-Distance Call From Jim:
- Well, I don't care if he does! I can remember the time when he et a good old-fashioned supper.
- 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
- Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert.
- 1946 February 18, Life magazine:
- It must have been somethin’ I et!
- 1996, Dana Lyons, "Cows with Guns":
- They eat to grow, grow to die / Die to be et at the hamburger fry.
- 2001, Richard Williams, The Animator's Survival Kit, page 220:
- Something I et?
- 1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective [2]:
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Uncertain. 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 (aἰtéo, “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”).[1]
NounEdit
et f (indefinite plural etje, definite singular etja, definite plural etjet)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 155
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin tē (accusative of tū).
PronounEdit
et (proclitic, contracted t', enclitic te, contracted enclitic 't)
DeclensionEdit
Usage notesEdit
- et is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs beginning with consonant.
- Et perdràs. ― You'll get lost.
Related termsEdit
ChuukeseEdit
NumeralEdit
et
- (serial counting) one
CimbrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
AdverbEdit
et
- (Sette Comuni) now
- Et lóofet dar hunt et dar haazo.
- Now the dog runs, and now the hare.
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
ArticleEdit
et (common en)
EmilianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
et (personal, nominative case)
- you (singular)
Alternative formsEdit
- 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 termsEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Disjunctive (tonic) |
Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Reflexive (-self) |
Comitative (with) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | mè | a | me | mêg | ||
Second | — | tè | et | te | têg | |||
Third | Masculine | ló | al | ge | se | sêg | ||
Feminine | lê | la | ||||||
Plural | First | Masculine | nuēter | a | se | nōsk | ||
Feminine | nuētri | |||||||
Second | Masculine | vuēter | a | ve | vōsk | |||
Feminine | vuētri | |||||||
Third | Masculine | lôr | i | ge | se | sêg | ||
Feminine | el | li |
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *että (compare Finnish että), from the same Proto-Uralic root *e- (“this”) as Hungarian ez
ConjunctionEdit
et
- that
- Ma tean, et sa oled julm.
- I know that you are cruel.
- to, in order to, so that, as to
- Ma sõitsin poodi, et viina osta.
- I drove to the store to buy vodka.
FaroeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
et
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See ei. Has the regular verb ending -t.
VerbEdit
et
- The second-person singular form of the negative verb (negation verb). The English translations include do not/don’t and not (with auxiliary verbs and be).
- (colloquial, Uusimaa) Alternative form of etkö.
Usage notesEdit
- The negative verb is used with the connegative form of the main verb. That form is identical to the second-person singular imperative in the indicative present. The potential mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -ne-, and the conditional mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -isi-. In the indicative past, conditional past and potential past, the active past participle singular (ending -ut/-yt) is used. The connegative form of the main verb is always used without the personal suffix.
- Usage of et:
- Indicative:
- Conditional:
- Sinä näkisit. (You would see.) -> Sinä et näkisi. (You would not see.)
- Sinä olisit nähnyt. (You would have seen.) -> Sinä et olisi nähnyt. (You would not have seen.)
- Potential:
- Sinä nähnet. (You probably see.) -> Sinä et nähne. (You probably do not see.)
- Sinä lienet nähnyt. (You have probably seen.) -> Sinä et liene nähnyt. (You have probably not seen.)
ConjugationEdit
- The negation verb has no infinitive form.
- Indicative, conditional and potential moods use the indicative forms (stem e-), for which the verb is conjugated only in person.
- In the imperative mood the negation verb has the stem äl-.
- An archaic optative mood exists and is used mainly in poetry.
Etymology 2Edit
Shortened form of että.
ConjunctionEdit
et
- (subordinating, colloquial) That.
SynonymsEdit
- että (standard Finnish)
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French et, from Old French et, from Latin et.
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
et
DescendantsEdit
Usage notesEdit
- et is never subject to liaison with a following word, i.e. the t is never pronounced.
Further readingEdit
- “et”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
IngrianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
et
- second-person singular present of ei
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 32:
- Makkaa aina yksintää, siis et noise läsimää.
- Always sleep alone, so you don't get ill.
ReferencesEdit
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 128
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)[5], page 11
- Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[6], →ISBN, page 95
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
ConjunctionEdit
et
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *éti or Proto-Indo-European *h₁eti. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔτι (éti), Sanskrit अति (ati), Old English prefix ed- (“anew, again”). More at ed-.
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
et
- and
- (mathematics) plus
- Duo et duo sunt quattuor.
- Two plus two equals four.
- Duo et duo sunt quattuor.
- (literary) though, even if
Usage notesEdit
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:et.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Eastern Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: et, e
- Gallo-Italic:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Old French: et, e
- Old Occitan: e
- Occitan: e
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: e
- Venetian: e
- West Iberian:
See alsoEdit
AdverbEdit
et (not comparable)
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
LivviEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
et
ReferencesEdit
- N. Gilojeva; S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect] (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
LuxembourgishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *hit. Cognate with German es, English it, Dutch het.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
et
- Reduced form of hatt (“she, her; it”)
DeclensionEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | de | dech | — | dir | der | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
Dir | Der | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | ||
3rd person singular | m | hien | en | hien | en | him | em | sech | |
f | si | se | si | se | hir | er | sech | ||
n | hatt | et ('t) | hatt | et ('t) | him | em | sech | ||
1st person plural | mir | mer | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | ||
2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | ||
3rd person plural | si | se | si | se | hinnen | en | sech |
Middle DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
et
- Alternative form of het
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French et.
ConjunctionEdit
et
DescendantsEdit
Middle Low GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
et
- Alternative form of it.
DeclensionEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st person singular | ik (ek) | mî (mê, mik, mek) | mîn (mîner) | ||
2nd person singular | dû | dî (dê, dik, dek) | dîn (dîner) | ||
3rd person singular | |||||
m | hê (hî, hie) | ēne, en (ȫne, ȫn) | ēme, em (ȫme, en) | sîn (sîner) | |
n | it (et) | ||||
f | sê (sî, sie, sü̂) | ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer) | |||
1st person plural | wî (wê, wie) | uns (ûs, ös, ü̂sik) | unser (ûser) | ||
2nd person plural | gî (jê, î) | jû (jûwe, û, jük, gik) | jûwer (ûwer) | ||
3rd person plural | sê (sî, sie) | em, öm, jüm (en, ēnen, ȫnen) | ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer) | ||
For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here. |
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French et, from Latin et.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
ConjunctionEdit
et
- (Jersey) and
- 2013 March 1, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier[7], page 20:
- Dans les clios étout nou vait des tracteurs et des machinnes tandi qu'lé travas du fèrmyi r'prend san rhythme coumme tréjous.
- In the fields tractors and machines can be seen too as farm work picks up again as always.
NounEdit
et m (plural ets)
SynonymsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
PronunciationEdit
ArticleEdit
et n (neuter indefinite article used with neuter nouns)
- a, an (the two English language indefinite articles; Old English had three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter like modern Bokmål and Nynorsk)
Related termsEdit
- ei (feminine indefinite article)
- en (masculine indefinite article)
- ett (neuter form of cardinal number)
See alsoEdit
- eit (Nynorsk) (neuter indefinite article)
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
et
- imperative of ete
ReferencesEdit
- “et” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
VerbEdit
et
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /e/
- The t in this word is merely an adoption of the Latin spelling and was never actually pronounced in Old French.
ConjunctionEdit
et
- and
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Blanches et verz, bloes et jaunes
- Whites and greens, blues and yellows.
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
DescendantsEdit
Old NorseEdit
VerbEdit
et
- inflection of eta:
PipilEdit
EtymologyEdit
Compare Classical Nahuatl etl (“bean”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
et (plural ehet)
- bean
- Xiccohua et pal ticmanat mozta
- Buy beans to boil tomorrow
Saterland FrisianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian et, hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit. Cognates include West Frisian it and Dutch het.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
et
- unstressed form of dät (“it”)
See alsoEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “et”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
ScotsEdit
NounEdit
et (plural ets)
ReferencesEdit
- “et, n.2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
SemaiEdit
PronounEdit
et[1]
- they (3rd person plural pronoun)
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
et m (plural ets)
- ampersand
- Synonym: y comercial
Further readingEdit
- “et”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NumeralEdit
et
Usage notesEdit
Used when counting; see also etpela.
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish ات (et, “meat”), from Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
et (definite accusative eti, plural etler)
DeclensionEdit
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Definite accusative | eti | etleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | ete | etlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | ette | etlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | etten | etlerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | etin | etlerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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UzbekEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *et.
NounEdit
et (plural etlar)
VepsEdit
VerbEdit
et
WalloonEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French et.
ConjunctionEdit
et
YolaEdit
ConjunctionEdit
et
- Alternative form of at (“that?”)
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 38