'Boss,' says the cabby, 'Iet 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[5]:
Well, I don't care if he does! I can remember the time when heet a good old-fashioned supper.
1937, J. R. R. Tolkien,The Hobbit:
Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to beet by you and Bert.
1946 February 18,Life magazine:
It must have been somethin’ Iet!
1985 February 9, Pip and Jane Baker,The Mark of the Rani episode 2, spoken by the Rani:
[My banishment was p]etty spite on the part of the Lord President, just because they [my lab mice]et his cat.
1996, Dana Lyons,Cows with Guns:
They eat to grow, grow to die / Die to beet at the hamburger fry.
2001, Richard Williams,The Animator's Survival Kit, page220:
Something Iet?
2004, Edward Lee,The Big Head, Overlook Connection Press,→ISBN, page54:
The girl screamed as The Bigheadet out her clitoris and surroundin' folds'a girlskin. Lotta blood down there already—from the corin' he'd just given her—and Bighead liked the taste'a blood, yessir, 'specially when it were mixed with the taste'a girlmeat.
2023, John McPhee,Tabula Rasa, page28:
And when the last partridge waset, the last bit of Badajoz goat, I handed the waiter a Visa card.
^Orel, Vladimir E. (2000),A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page155
“et” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
et inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
et inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"et", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
N. Gilojeva; S. Rudakova (2009),Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect][8] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk,→ISBN, page20
Olga Žarinova (2012),Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg,→ISBN, page142
Tatjana Boiko (2019), “ei”, inSuuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition,→ISBN, page38
The reduced forms with an apostrophe areenclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions.Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject formhat is now rarely used. Inreflexive use, only full object forms occur. Dual formswat / unk andjat / junk are obsolete. Attributive and independent possessives are not distinguished in Mooring.
The reduced forms with an apostrophe areenclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions.Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject formhat is now rarely used. Inreflexive use, only full object forms occur.
The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
FromOld Norseeitt, the nominative and accusative form ofeinn. The indefinite article was not used in Old Norse and was likely an influence from other Germanic languages.
Thet in this word is merely an adoption of the Latin spelling and was never actually pronounced in Old French, except in the earliest texts, where it is pronounced before a vowel-initial word.
Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “eʰt”, inAn Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[10], Tokyo: University of Tokyo,→ISBN, page90
^Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008),Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi:Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Buck, Carl Darling (1904),A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary
Poultney, James Wilson (1959),The Bronze Tables of Iguvium[11], Baltimore: American Philological Association
De Vaan, Michiel (2008),Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page195
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published1867,page38
