ette

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.tə/

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• Hyphenation: et‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

ette m (plural etten, diminutive etje n)

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

• rechter

• Etstoel
• etstoel

From ees.

ette

1. before, in front of

ette

1. in advance, ahead

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

ette

1. second-person plural indicative of ei

• teet

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

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

ette

1. third-person singular indicative past definite of eszik

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

ette

1. third-person singular indicative past definite of esz

ette (plural éttem)

1. louse

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

ette

1. Alternative form of eten

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈetʲe/

ette f (genitive ette, nominative plural etti)

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

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

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

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ette”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• etteṃ

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.

ette

1. lower (indeclinable)

ette

1. down

• ettesa

• 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

ette

1. locative singular of et

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Finnish eteen.

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

ette

1. ahead, towards the front

ette

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

ette

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

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈetːæ/, [ˈetːə]
• Rhymes: -etːæ
• Hyphenation: et‧te

ette

1. Alternative form of etti

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