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fet

See also: FET, Fet, and fèt

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fɛt/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.

Verb edit

fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)

  1. (obsolete) To fetch.
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Etymology 2 edit

Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

Noun edit

fet (plural fets)

  1. (obsolete) A piece.
    • 1627, Michael Drayton, The Quest of Cynthia, published 1810:
      That the bottom clear,
      Now lay'd with many a fet
      of seed pearl,

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

fet (plural not attested)

  1. (BDSM, usually attributive) Clipping of fetish.
    • 1997, NuBabyByte, “Iron Shackles, Bare Feet”, in alt.torture (Usenet):
      oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached.
    • 2003, Morgane, “Relatives turning up in the scene”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
      It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Aromanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin fētō. Compare Daco-Romanian făta.

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Verb edit

fet first-singular present indicative (past participle fitatã)

  1. to give birth, foal, litter, calve (of mammals)
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Etymology 2 edit

From Latin fētus (“offspring, progreny”). Compare Daco-Romanian făt.

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Noun edit

fet m (plural fets)

  1. young child, boy
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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait. Compare also Spanish hecho.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fet m (plural fets)

  1. fact

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Participle edit

fet (feminine feta, masculine plural fets, feminine plural fetes)

  1. past participle of fer

Chuukese edit

Etymology edit

Contraction of föri + met

Contraction edit

fet

  1. what is someone doing?
    Ka fet? ― What are you doing?

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *fetą, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fet n (genitive singular fets, nominative plural fet)

  1. step
  2. (historical) a unit of measure equivalent to half an alin, or 3 lófar
  3. foot (unit of measure equivalent to 12 inches)

Declension edit

declension of fet
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fet fetið fet fetin
accusative fet fetið fet fetin
dative feti fetinu fetum fetunum
genitive fets fetsins feta fetanna

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse feitr.

Adjective edit

fet (neuter singular fett, definite singular and plural fete, comparative fetere, indefinite superlative fetest, definite superlative feteste)

  1. fat
  2. fatty (especially food)

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse fit f.

Noun edit

fet f (definite singular feta, indefinite plural feter, definite plural fetene)

  1. a grassy meadow, especially near a body of water

Inflection edit

Historical inflection of fet
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
1901 fit fiti fitjar fitjarne (fitjane)
1917 fita, fiti fitjane
1938 fita [fiti]
1959 fitjar [fiter] fitjane [fitene]
2012 (current) fet feta feter fetene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

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Old English edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fēt

  1. plural of fōt

Descendants edit

  • Middle English: fet, feet

Old French edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin factus.

Verb edit

fet

  1. past participle of fere
  2. third-person singular present indicative of fere

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin factum.

Noun edit

fet oblique singular, m (oblique plural fez or fetz, nominative singular fez or fetz, nominative plural fet)

  1. act; action
  2. fact
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Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *swizdā, from Proto-Celtic *swizdeti (“to blow”). Related to Old Irish séitid and Welsh chwythu (“to blow”), Breton c'hwezh and Welsh chwyth (“breath”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fet f (genitive fite or feite, nominative plural feta)

  1. whistling, hissing, the sound of a sword cleaving the air
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 3a7
      is cosmart do rétaib ind ḟet
      the whistling is a signal by things
  2. (musical intrument) pipe

Inflection edit

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fetL fitL fetaH
Vocative fetL fitL fetaH
Accusative fitN fitL fetaH
Genitive fiteH fetL fetN
Dative fitL fetaib fetaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fetL feitL fetaH
Vocative fetL feitL fetaH
Accusative feitN feitL fetaH
Genitive feiteH fetL fetN
Dative feitL fetaib fetaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fet ḟet fet
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish fēter, from Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

fet (comparative fetare, superlative fetast)

  1. fat, obese (about people or animals)
    Fetare gubbe har jag nog aldrig sett tidigare. ― I don't think I've seen such a fat guy before.
  2. containing much fat (about food)
  3. being especially fertile, profitable or lucrative; (slang) good, extraordinary, phat (a general intensifier, usually positive)
    Du missade en riktigt fet chans. ― You missed quite a good opportunity.
    Shit, vilken fet bil du har köpt! ― Damn, what a nice/cool/phat car you've bought!

Inflection edit

Inflection of fet
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular fet fetare fetast
Neuter singular fett fetare fetast
Plural feta fetare fetast
Masculine plural3 fete fetare fetast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 fete fetare fetaste
All feta fetare fetaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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