See also: vét, vèt, vět, vêt, vẹt, vẽt, vet., Vet., and VET

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /vɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • (file)

Etymology 1Edit

Clipping of veterinarian.

NounEdit

vet (plural vets)

  1. (colloquial) A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
    • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian[1]:
      Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying.
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TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Clipping of veteran.

NounEdit

vet (plural vets)

  1. (colloquial, US) A veteran (a former soldier or other member of armed forces).
    • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 73:
      “A former soldier, sir. A vet. Theyʼre all vets, a little shellshocked.”
Usage notesEdit

Although veteran can be used in many contexts such as sports or business to describe someone with many years of experience, vet is usually used only for former military personnel.

TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Possibly by analogy from Etymology 1, in the sense of "verifying the soundness [of an animal]"

VerbEdit

vet (third-person singular simple present vets, present participle vetting, simple past and past participle vetted)

  1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
    The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
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OED2

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

i vet

  1. his, her or their own
    Aleksandri është me Albanin dhe qenin e vet.
    Aleksandër is with Alban and his (own) dog.

Usage notesEdit

Used in contexts where i tij (his), i saj (her) or i tyre (their) would be ambiguous. In the example sentence above, if "e vet" were replaced with "e tij", it would more likely refer to Alban's dog. The use of "vet" removes this ambiguity.

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

BlagarEdit

NounEdit

vet

  1. coconut

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CatalanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin veto.

NounEdit

vet m (plural vets)

  1. veto

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin videte, second-person plural present imperative of videō (to see). Compare French voici, voilà.

AdverbEdit

vet

  1. there is
    vet aquí
    here's
See alsoEdit

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vet

  1. genitive plural of veto

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch vet, from Old Dutch fētit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

vet (comparative vetter, superlative vetst)

  1. fat
  2. greasy
  3. emphatical, (in print) bold
    Synonym: vetjes
  4. (informal) cool
    Wow, vet!Wow, cool!

InflectionEdit

Inflection of vet
uninflected vet
inflected vette
comparative vetter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial vet vetter het vetst
het vetste
indefinite m./f. sing. vette vettere vetste
n. sing. vet vetter vetste
plural vette vettere vetste
definite vette vettere vetste
partitive vets vetters

SynonymsEdit

  • (fat; emphatical, bold; cool): dik

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Afrikaans: vet
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fete
  • Negerhollands: vet, fet
  • Papiamentu: vèt

NounEdit

vet n (plural vetten)

  1. fat
  2. grease

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fete

AdverbEdit

vet

  1. (colloquial) very
    Hij is vet dik.
    He's very fat.

AnagramsEdit

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wettä- (to throw, fling, toss). [1][2]

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

vet

  1. (transitive) to throw, cast
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to sow
    ki mint vet, úgy aratreap what one sows (literally, “the way one sows will s/he reap”)

ConjugationEdit

Note that vettem, vettél, vett etc. are not forms of this verb but those of vesz (to take, buy).

Derived termsEdit

(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions with -t
Expressions with -ra/-re
Expressions with other or no arguments

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Entry #1143 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  2. ^ vet in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further readingEdit

  • vet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

IngrianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Russian ведь (vedʹ).

PronunciationEdit

ConjunctionEdit

vet

  1. after all
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 56:
      Jo vet ono lumi maas.
      There's already snow on the ground, after all.
    • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:
      Miä vet saan lypsää, - halliaal meeleel vastais Ksenja.
      I can milk, after all - Ksenja answered in a grieving mood.

ReferencesEdit

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 650

Middle DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Dutch fētit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

AdjectiveEdit

vet

  1. fat, large (of humans or animals)
  2. (rich in) fat
  3. fatty, greasy
  4. fertile, rich in nutrients (of land)

InflectionEdit

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

NounEdit

vet n

  1. fat
  2. grease

InflectionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

vet

  1. present tense of vite

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

vet

  1. imperative of veta

SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

vet

  1. present of veta; know, knows
  2. imperative of veta.
    Vet hut!
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

AnagramsEdit

VurësEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Torres-Banks *βatu, from Proto-Oceanic *patu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.[1]

NounEdit

vet

  1. stone, rock (of any size)

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Torres-Banks *βatu, from Proto-Oceanic *patuʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batuʀ.[1]

NounEdit

vet

  1. to weave or plait
Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Catriona Malau (September 2021), “vet”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 210

WestrobothnianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse vit, from Proto-Germanic *witją. Cognate with Gutnish vit, Elfdalian wit and Blekingian vôjt.

NounEdit

vet n

  1. wits, reason
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse væta, from Proto-Germanic *wētijǭ.

NounEdit

vêt f

  1. milk or other liquid eaten with porridge
  2. humid weather

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Norse væta, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną.

VerbEdit

vêt (preterite vêtt, supine vett)

  1. to wet, water