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ette

See also: -ette

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch ette (“judge”), from Old Dutch *atto, from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *átta.

In either the Frankish or Old Dutch part of the word's history, the word shifted in meaning from “father” to “judge”, analogous to how in Latin the word patres (“fathers”) took the additional meaning “senators”.

Cognate with Old High German atto (Middle High German atte, Alemannic German Ätti).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.tə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: et‧te
  • Rhymes: -ɛtə

Noun

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ette m (plural etten, diminutive etje n)

  1. (history) judge in Drenthe
  2. (obsolete) judge

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From ees.

Postposition

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ette

  1. before, in front of

Adverb

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ette (not comparable)

  1. in advance, ahead

Finnish

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈetːe/, [ˈe̞t̪ːe̞]
  • Rhymes: -etːe
  • Syllabification(key): et‧te

Verb

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ette

  1. second-person plural indicative of ei

Anagrams

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɛtːɛ]
  • Hyphenation: et‧te

Etymology 1

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From a modified e(sz)- stem of eszik +‎ -tte.

Verb

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ette

  1. third-person singular indicative past definite of eszik

Participle

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ette

  1. verbal participle of eszik
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From a modified e(sz)- stem of esz +‎ -tte.

Verb

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ette

  1. third-person singular indicative past definite of esz

Mayo

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Noun

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ette (plural éttem)

  1. louse

References

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  • Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎[1] (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 139

Middle English

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Verb

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ette

  1. Alternative form of eten

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *ɸettiyā, from *ɸeteti (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to fly”).

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Noun

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ette f (genitive ette, nominative plural etti)

  1. wing, pinion
  2. fin
  3. feather, plume

Declension

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative etteL ettiL etti
Vocative etteL ettiL etti
Accusative ettiN ettiL etti
Genitive ette etteL etteN
Dative ettiL ettib ettib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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  • ettech (“winged; having fins; having wing-like appendages; flying, fluttering”)

Descendants

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  • Irish: eite, eiteog
  • Manx: fedjag
  • Scottish Gaelic: ite, iteag

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ette
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-ette
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Tocharian B

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰér, whence also Tocharian A āñc. Cognate with English under, Latin īnferus, and Sanskrit अधर (adhara), all of the same meaning.

Adjective

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ette

  1. lower (indeclinable)

Adverb

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ette

  1. down

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ette”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 85-86

Turkish

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Noun

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ette

  1. locative singular of et

Votic

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Etymology 1

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From the illative singular of Proto-Finnic *eci. Cognate with Finnish eteen.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈeteː/, [ˈetːe]
  • Rhymes: -eteː
  • Hyphenation: et‧te

Adverb

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ette

  1. ahead, towards the front

Postposition

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ette

  1. (genitive/illative/allative + ~) to the front of

Preposition

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ette

  1. (~ + genitive/illative/allative) to the front of

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈetːæ/, [ˈetʲːə̟]
  • Rhymes: -etːæ
  • Hyphenation: et‧te

Conjunction

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ette

  1. Alternative form of etti

References

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  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “etee”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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