et

Possibly from either an Abbreviation of English Estonian or Estonian eesti

et

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

et

1. (informal, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of ate, the simple past tense and past participle of eat
   • 1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective :

     So we got to talking together while he et his breakfast.

   • 1907, O. Henry, Seats of the Haughty :

     '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?

• TE, te

• etje

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]

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

1. thirst

From Latin tē (accusative of tū).

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

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

• et is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs beginning with a consonant.

  Et perdràs. ― You'll get lost.

• te
• tu

et

1. (serial counting) one

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.

et

1. (Sette Comuni) now

   Et lóofet dar hunt et dar haazo.

   Now the dog runs, and now the hare.

• éttor

• “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

From Old Norse eitt.

• IPA^(key): /et/, [ed̥]

et (common en)

1. (neuter) a, an

From Latin tū (“you”).

• IPA^(key): /et/
• Hyphenation: et

et (personal, nominative case)

1. you (singular)

• 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).

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

et

1. that

   Ma tean, et sa oled julm.

   I know that you are cruel.

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

   Ma sõitsin poodi, et viina osta.

   I drove to the store to buy vodka.

• IPA^(key): [eːʰt]

et

1. singular imperative of eta

• te

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

et

1. second-person singular indicative of ei
2. (colloquial, Uusimaa) Alternative form of etkö.

Shortened form of että.

et

1. (subordinating, colloquial) That.

• että (standard Finnish)

• Te, te

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

• IPA^(key): /e/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: ai

et

1. and

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

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

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

• te

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

et

1. 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.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 128
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 95

From Latin et (“and; plus”).

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

et

1. (archaic, poetic) Alternative form of e

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

• te, tè

• &

From Proto-Indo-European *éti or Proto-Indo-European *h₁eti. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔτι (éti), Sanskrit अति (ati), Old English prefix ed- (“re-”). More at ed-.

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

et

1. and
2. (mathematics) plus

   Duo et duo sunt quattuor.

   Two plus two equals four.

3. (literary) though, even if

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

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

• (and): -que
• (and): atque

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: e
  • Romanian: e
• Franco-Provençal: et, e
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: e
  • Ligurian: e
  • Piedmontese: e
  • Romagnol: e
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: e
  • Dalmatian: e
  • Istriot: e
  • Italian: e, ed
  • Neapolitan: e
  • Sicilian: e
• Old French: et, e
  • Middle French: et
    • French: et
      • Mauritian Creole: e, ek
      • → English: et
  • Norman: et
  • Picard: et
  • Walloon: et, eyet
• Old Occitan: e
  • Occitan: e
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: e
  • Ladin: y
  • Romansch: e, ed
• Sardinian: e
• Venetian: e
• West Iberian:
  • Extremaduran: i
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: y
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: y, ya
    • Leonese: y
    • Mirandese: i
  • Old Portuguese: e
    • Fala: i
    • Galician: e
    • Portuguese: e
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: i, e
      • Indo-Portuguese: e
      • Kabuverdianu: y, i, e
      • Papiamentu: i, y
  • Old Spanish: é, e
    • Ladino: i
    • Spanish: y

• ampersand

et (not comparable)

1. also, too, besides, or likewise

   quoque

   • Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 1:

     Troia et huic loco nomen est

     This place too is called Troy

• 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)

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

et

1. second-person singular indicative of ei

• 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

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

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

et

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

• IPA^(key): /et/, /ət/

et

1. Alternative form of het

From Old French et.

et

1. and

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/, /ət/

et

1. Alternative form of it.

From Old French et, from Latin et.

• Audio (Jersey)

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et

1. (Jersey) and
   • 2013 March 1, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier‎, 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.

et m (plural ets)

1. (Jersey) ampersand

• ampèrsand

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.

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /ɛt/

et n (neuter indefinite article used with neuter nouns)

1. a, an (the neuter indefinite article)

• ei (feminine indefinite article)
• en (masculine indefinite article)
• ett (neuter form of cardinal number)

• eit (Nynorsk) (neuter indefinite article)

• IPA^(key): /eːt/

et

1. imperative of ete

• “et” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

et

1. present tense of eta
2. imperative of eta

• e

From Latin et.

• IPA^(key): /e/
  • The t in this word is merely an adoption of the Latin spelling and was never actually pronounced in Old French.

et

1. and
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Blanches et verz, bloes et jaunes

     Whites and greens, blues and yellows.

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

et

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

Compare Classical Nahuatl etl (“bean”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈet/

et (plural ehet)

1. bean

   Xiccohua et pal ticmanat mozta

   Buy beans to boil tomorrow

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

• (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]

et

1. meat, flesh

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ät, e't, et”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 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], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 105
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “eʰt”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 90

From Proto-Turkic *ēt-, cognate with Turkish etmek.

• IPA^(key): [etʰ]

et

1. to do, make

• dovu et- (“to pray”)

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “e‘t, e‘c, ec, eʒ‘...”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 328
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “et-”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, OCLC 17467570, page 24
• 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], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 106
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016), “et-”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project)

• 't

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

• IPA^(key): /ət/
• Hyphenation: et

et

1. unstressed form of dät (“it”)

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

et (plural ets)

1. Shetland form of aet

• “et, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

et[1]

1. they (3rd person plural pronoun)

• mambééq (Bota)
• ennaay

From Latin et.

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

et m (plural ets)

1. ampersand

   Synonym: y comercial

• “et”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From English eight.

et

1. eight

Used when counting; see also etpela.

From Ottoman Turkish ات‎ (et, “meat, flesh, pulp”)[1], from Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”)[2].

• IPA^(key): /et/

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. Bare skin on body.
4. The soft, edible part of a fruit between the skin and the core.

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

et

1. second-person singular imperative of etmek

• et in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

From Proto-Turkic *et.

et (plural etlar)

1. flesh
2. meat

et

1. second-person plural present of ei

• eyet

From Old French et.

et

1. and

et

1. Alternative form of at (“that?”)

• 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