Possibly from either anabbreviation ofEnglishEstonian orEstonianeesti.

et

1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forEstonian.

FromMiddle Englishet, fromOld Englishæt, first and third person singular indicative ofOld Englishetan(“to eat”).Doublet ofate.

• IPA^(key):/ɛt/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-ɛt

et

1. (informal,dialectal)Pronunciation spelling ofate,thesimplepast andpastparticiple ofeat
   • 1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain),Tom Sawyer, Detective[3]:

     So we got to talking together while heet his breakfast.

   • 1907, O. Henry,Seats of the Haughty‎^[4]:

     '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?

   • 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.

• TE,te

• etje

Uncertain. Attested as "het" in Bogdani. Possibly fromProto-Indo-European*i̯et(“to set out for; to strive”). CompareOld Irishét(“thirst”),Irishéad(“eagerness, jealousy”),Latinsitis(“thirst”),Tocharian Ayat(“reach, get”). Alternatively fromProto-Indo-European*eus-ti-, cognate toGreekαἰτέω(aitéō,“to demand, to beg”). Orel suggestsProto-Albanian*alk-ti-, drawing comparisons toLithuanianálkti(“to be hungry”),Proto-Slavic*olkati(“id.”), andOld High Germanilgi(“hunger”).^[1]

et f (pluraletje,definiteetja,definite pluraletjet)

1. (dated)thirst

This entry needs aninflection-table template.

Inherited fromLatintē (accusative oftū).

• (Balearic,Central)IPA^(key):/ət/
• (Valencia)IPA^(key):/et/

et (proclitic,contractedt',encliticte,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 aconsonant.

  Et perdràs. ―You'll get lost.

• te
• tu

et

1. (serial counting)one

FromMiddle High Germaniezuo,ieze,iezō, fromOld High Germaniozou, perhaps fromProto-Germanic*juta. Cognate withGermanitzo (modernjetzt),Englishyet.

et

1. (Sette Comuni)now

   Et lóofet dar huntet dar haazo.

   Now the dog runs, andnow the hare.

• éttor

• “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

FromProto-Turkic*et.

et

1. meat

• https://classes.ru/all-crtatar/dictionary-crtatar-russian-cyr-term-14187.htm
• “et”, inLuğatçıq (in Russian)

FromOld Norseeitt.

• IPA^(key):/et/,[ed̥]

et (commonen)

1. (neuter)a,an

FromLatintū(“you”).

• IPA^(key):/et/
• Hyphenation:et

et (personal, nominative case)

1. you(singular)

• Becomest- before a vowel.
• Becomes-et when acting as an enclitic (after a consonant).
• Becomes-t when acting as an enclitic (after a vowel).

FromProto-Finnic*että (compareFinnishettä), from the sameProto-Uralic root*e-(“this”) as Hungarianez.

et

1. that

   Ma tean,et sa oled julm.

   I knowthat you are cruel.

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

   Ma sõitsin poodi,et viina osta.

   I drove to the storeto buy vodka.

• IPA^(key):[eːʰt]

et

1. singularimperative ofeta

• te

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

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

et

1. second-personsingularindicative ofei

• etkö

et(colloquial)

1. (subordinating)Apocopic form ofettä

Borrowed fromLatinet(“and”).

et

1. (coordinating)And, especially as symbolized by anampersand.

• Te,te

Inherited fromLatinet.

et(ORB, broad)

1. and

• et in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• et in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchet, fromOld Frenchet, fromLatinet.

• IPA^(key):/e/

• Audio(Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-e
• Homophones:ai,eh,hé

et

1. and

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

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

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

• te

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

et

1. second-personsingularpresent ofei
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus,Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page32:

     Makkaa aina yksintää, siiset noise läsimää.

     Always sleep alone, soyou don't get ill.

• V. I. Junus (1936)Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[6], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page128
• Arvo Laanest (1997)Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page24
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014)Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[7],→ISBN, page95

FromLatinet(“and; plus”).

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

et

1. (archaic,poetic)Alternative form ofe

• et inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

• te,tè

• &,⁊
• ed(nonstandard)

FromProto-Italic*et, fromProto-Indo-European*éti orProto-Indo-European*h₁eti.

Cognate withAncient Greekἔτι(éti),Sanskritअति(ati),Gothic𐌹𐌸(iþ,“and, but, however, yet”),Old English prefixed-(“re-”). More ated-.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈet/,[ˈɛt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈet/,[ˈɛt̪]
• Homophone:-et

et

1. and
2. (mathematics)plus

   Duoet duo sunt quattuor.

   Twoplus two equals four.

3. (literary)though,even if

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

• For quotations using this term, seeCitations:et.

• (and):-que
• (and):atque

The descendants appear to reflect a vulgar form*ed, by analogy withad.

et (notcomparable)

1. also,too,besides, orlikewise

   Synonym:quoque

   • 44BCE,Cicero,De Officiis1.133:

     Nihil fuit in Catulīs, ut eōs exquisitō iūdiciō putārēs utī litterārum, quamquam erant litteratī; sedet aliī.

     Nothing in the Catuli would have made one suppose them having a somewhat refined litterary taste; yes, they were cultured; butso were others.

• 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)

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

et

1. second-personsingularindicative ofei

• 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

FromProto-Germanic*hit. Cognate withGermanes,Englishit,Dutchhet.

• IPA^(key):/et/,[ət]
  • Rhymes:-ət

et

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

• IPA^(key):/et/,/ət/

et

1. Alternative form ofhet

FromOld Frenchet.

et

1. and

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

• IPA^(key):/ɛt/,/ət/

et

1. Alternative form ofit.

FromOld Frenchet, fromLatinet.

• Audio(Jersey):

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et

1. (Jersey)and
   • 2013 March, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, inThe Town Crier‎^[9], archived fromthe original on13 March 2016, page20:

     Dans les clios étout nou vait des tracteurset des machinnes tandi qu'lé travas du fèrmyi r'prend san rhythme coumme tréjous.

     In the fields tractorsand machines can be seen too as farm work picks up again as always.

et m (pluralets)

1. (Jersey)ampersand

• ampèrsand

et

1. (Mooring,Sylt)Reduced form ofhat(“it”,subject)
2. (Mooring)Reduced form ofham(“it”,object)
3. (Sylt)Reduced form ofhöm(“it”,object)

• The formet is always unstressed, but not necessarilyenclitic like other reduced forms.

• 't(enclitic)
• at(Föhr-Amrum)

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.

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key):/ɛt/

et n(neuter indefinite article used with neuter nouns)

1. a,an (the neuterindefinite 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 ofete

• “et” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

et

1. inflection ofeta:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key):/et/

et

1. singularimperative ofetan

• e

FromLatinet.

• IPA^(key):/e/
  • 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.

et

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

     Blancheset verz, bloeset jaunes

     Whitesand greens, bluesand yellows.

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

et

1. inflection ofeta:
   1. first-personsingularpresentactiveindicative
   2. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative

CompareClassical Nahuatletl(“bean”).

• (standard)IPA^(key):/ˈet/

et (pluralehet)

1. bean

   Xiccohuaet pal ticmanat mozta

   Buybeans to boil tomorrow

FromProto-Turkic*et. Cognate withTurkishet.

• (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, eʼt, et”, inStroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages300, 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] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing,→ISBN, page105
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “eʰt”, inAn Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[10], Tokyo: University of Tokyo,→ISBN, page90

• 't

FromOld Frisianet,hit, fromProto-Germanic*hit. Cognates includeWest Frisianit andDutchhet.

• IPA^(key):/ət/
• Hyphenation:et

et

1. unstressed form ofdät(“it”)

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

et (pluralets)

1. Shetland form ofaet

• “et, n.²”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.

et^[1]

1. they(3rd person plural pronoun)

• mambééq(Bota)
• ennaay

Borrowed fromLatinet.

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

et m (pluralets)

1. ampersand

   Synonym:y comercial

• “et”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

FromEnglisheight.

et

1. eight

Used when counting; see alsoetpela.

FromOttoman Turkishات(et,“meat, flesh, pulp”),^[1] fromProto-Turkic*et(“meat”).^[2]

• IPA^(key):/et/

• Audio:

  (file)

et (definite accusativeeti,pluraletler)

1. Themuscle andfat tissue in humans and animals;meat,flesh.
2. The muscle tissue in animals used asfood.
3. The muscle tissue of specificallybeef orlamb used asfood.

   et döner ―beef/lambdöner

4. Bare skin on body.
5. Thesoft,edible part of afruit between the skin and thecore.

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

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

et

1. second-personsingularimperative ofetmek

• “et”, inTurkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

FromProto-Turkic*et.

et (pluraletlar)

1. flesh
2. meat

et

1. second-personpluralpresent ofei

• eyet

FromOld Frenchet.

• IPA^(key):/ɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

et

1. and

et

1. Alternative form ofat(“that?”)

• 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

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

• (Standard Zhuang)IPA^(key):/ʔeːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: et⁷
• Hyphenation: et

et (Sawndip form𬖋,1957–1982 spellinget)

1. steamedleaf-wrappedcake made ofglutinous ricepaste