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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishwet(“wet, moistened”),wett,wette, past participle ofMiddle Englishweten(“to wet”), fromOld Englishwǣtan(“to wet, moisten, water”), fromProto-West Germanic*wātijan, fromProto-Germanic*wētijaną(“to wet, make wet”), fromProto-Indo-European*wed-(“water, wet”) (also the source ofwater).

Cognate withScotsweit,wete(“to wet”),Saterland Frisianwäitje(“to wet; drench”),Icelandicvæta(“to wet”). Compare alsoMiddle Englishweet(“wet”), fromOld Englishwǣt(“wet, moist, rainy”), fromProto-West Germanic*wāt, fromProto-Germanic*wētaz(“wet, moist”), related toScotsweit,weet,wat(“wet”),North Frisianwiat,weet,wäit(“wet”),Saterland Frisianwäit(“wet”),West Frisianwiet(“wet”),Middle Dutchwet(“wet, damp, watery”),Swedish andNorwegianvåt(“wet”),Danishvåd(“wet”),Faroesevátur(“wet”),Icelandicvotur(“wet”).

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Adjective

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wet (comparativewetter,superlativewettest)

  1. Made up ofliquid ormoisture, usually (but not always) water.
    Synonym:wetting
    Water iswet.
  2. Of anobject, etc.:covered orimpregnated with liquid, usually (but not always)water.
    Synonyms:damp,saturated,soaked;see alsoThesaurus:wet
    Antonym:dry
    I went out in the rain and now my clothes are allwet.
    The baby iswet and needs its nappy changed.
  3. Of aburrito,sandwich, or otherfood:covered in asauce.
    • 2000, Robert Allen Palmatier,Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms, page 372:
      A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of awet burrito.
    • 2005,Restaurant business, Volume 104, Issues 1-10
      The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
    • 2011, J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel,Dark Territory, page 13
      But I'm getting thewet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
  4. Ofcalligraphy andfountain pens:depositing a large amount ofink from thenib or thefeed.
    This pen’s awet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
  5. Of asoundrecording: having hadaudioeffectsapplied.
  6. Ofweather or atimeperiod:rainy.
    Synonyms:damp,raining,rainy
    Antonyms:dry,sunny
    It’s going to bewet tomorrow.
    • 1637,John Milton,Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 32,[2]
      Summer drouth, or singed aire
      Never scorch thy tresses faire,
      Norwet Octobers torrent flood
      Thy molten crystall fill with mudde,
    • 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, inRail, page58:
      February 2020 was officially thewettest February on record for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the secondwettest (behind 1990) for Scotland.
  7. (aviation) Usingafterburners or water injection for increasedenginethrust.
    This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximumwet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
  8. (slang) Of a person:inexperienced in aprofession ortask; having thecharacteristics of arookie.
    Synonyms:green,wet behind the ears
    That guy’swet; after all, he just started yesterday.
  10. (slang, vulgar, of a female)Sexuallyaroused and thus having thevulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
    Synonyms:horny,moist;see alsoThesaurus:randy
    He got me allwet.
  11. (British, slang)Ineffectual,feeble, showing nostrength ofcharacter.
    • 1924,Percy Marks, chapter XVII, inThe Plastic Age:
      "Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man iswet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he iswet if he isn't 'smooth'; he iswet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn'twet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded aswet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … "
    • 2020,Boris Johnson quoted in "Proms row: Johnson calls for end to 'cringing embarrassment' over UK history," by Jim Waterson,The Guardian, Aug. 25, 2020:
      “I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination andwetness."
    Synonyms:feeble,hopeless,useless,drip
    Don’t be sowet.
  12. (retronym)Permittingalcoholicbeverages.
    • 1995, Richard F. Hamm,Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment:
      Thewet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
  13. (slang, archaic)Refreshed withliquor;drunk.
    Synonyms:inebriated,soused;see alsoThesaurus:drunk
    • c.1694,Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon”
      […] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, andwet with Iovial Friends […]
  14. (biology, chemistry) Of ascientist orlaboratory:working withbiological orchemicalmatter.
    Antonym:dry
  15. (chemistry)Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
    thewet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
  16. (slang, euphemistic) Involvingassassination or "wet work".
    awet affair; awet job;wet stuff
  17. (pokerslang)Of aboard orflop: enabling the creation of many or of stronghands;e.g. containingconnectors orsuited cards. (Comparedry).
  18. (dated or obsolete, colloquial)Of aQuaker:liberal with respect to religious observance.
    • 1811.John Adams,Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in1856.Charles Francis Adams (ed.),The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661.
      The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him awet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.

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Translations

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made of liquid or moisture
of an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid
of weather or a time period: rainy—see alsorainy
(slang) sexually aroused and thus having a moistened vulva
(slang) of a person: ineffectual
of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter

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Noun

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wet (countable anduncountable,pluralwets)

  1. Liquid ormoisture.
  2. Rainy weather.
    Don't go out in thewet.
  3. (Australia)Rainy season. (often capitalized)
    • 1938,Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, inCapricornia‎[3], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published1943, pages186–7:
      They'll be in the camp[…] before the Wet's out, mark my words.
    • 2005,Sean Dooley,The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page289:
      Once thewet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]
    • 2006,Alexis Wright,Carpentaria, Giramondo, published2012, page365:
      He said he wanted to beat the clouds gathering, before theWet had properly settled itself over the plains again.
    • 2015, David Andrew,The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, Csiro Publishing, Appendix B, page 380[4]
      Northern Australia is tropical and subject to a prolonged wet season (often called simply 'theWet') that may last from December to April […] . TheWet features high humidity, heavy rain, flooding that can cut off towns and roads for days on end, and, in most years, violent cyclones that cause high seas, widespread damage and sometimes loss of life.
  4. (British, UK politics, derogatory) AmoderateConservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
    Antonym:dry
  5. (colloquial) Analcoholic drink.
    • 1974,GB Edwards,The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published2007, page60:
      ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a freewet.’
  6. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposesProhibition.
    • c. 1952-1996,Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
      The drys were as unhappy with the second part ofthe speech as thewets were with the first half.
  7. (motor racing, in theplural) Atyre for use in wetweather.
    • 2004, Jonathan Noble, Mark Hughes,Formula One Racing For Dummies, page303:
      Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.
  8. (colloquial, derogatory) Aweak orsentimental person; awimp orsoftie.
    • 1984,British Book News, page324:
      Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.
    • 1990, Grant Naylor,Better Than Life:
      Rimmer had never been terribly good at sports. In fact, he'd been one of the group of 'wets, weirdos and fatties' who stood by the touchline at ball games, worrying about their chapped legs, and fleeing whenever the ball came near them.
  9. Alternative form ofwat(“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”)

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pejorative: moderate Conservative

Verb

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wet (third-person singular simple presentwets,present participlewetting,simple past and past participlewetorwetted)

  1. (transitive) To cover orimpregnate with liquid.
    Synonyms:drench,get wet,soak,sog
    • 1941 December, G. H. Soole, “The Mountain Section of the C.P.R.”, inRailway Magazine, page530:
      There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails arewetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.
    • 1971, Gwen White,Antique Toys And Their Background, page90:
      'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automaticallywetted, scrubbed and dried.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
    Synonyms:dampen,dew,get wet,moisten
    • 2008, “Be Nice To Me”, inI Hate My Friends, performed by The Front Bottoms:
      I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem towet
  3. (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidentalurination.
    Johnnywets the bed several times a week.
    She was laughing so hard shewet her pants.
  4. (transitive, soldering) To form anintermetallic bond between asolder and a metalsubstrate.
  5. (transitive, informal) Tocelebrate by drinking alcohol.
    • 1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell,A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings:
      [He] invited some officers and other gentlemen to dine with him at the Dolphin tavern in Tower street, June 17, 1706, in order towet his commission[…]
  6. Misspelling ofwhet.
  7. (US, MLE, MTE, slang) Tokill or seriouslyinjure.
    Synonyms:do away with,do violence to;see alsoThesaurus:harm,Thesaurus:kill

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Translations

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cover or impregnate with liquid
urinate accidentally in or on
become wet
form an intermetallic bond
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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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FromDutchwet.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wet (pluralwette)

  1. law

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Ambonese Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromDutchwet.

Noun

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wet

  1. law
    Kalu su langgarwet tantu dia masu bui.
    If it's againstthe law, of course he will go to jail.

References

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  • D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998)Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎[6], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Araki

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromBislamawet(“wet”), fromEnglishwet.

Adjective

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wet

  1. wet

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Chinese

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English wet?[7] From 威?”)

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wet

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, dated) to goclubbing; toparty; tohang out; tohave a good time

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchwet,wette,wit,weet, fromOld Dutchwitat,witut(“rule, law”), fromProto-West Germanic*witōþ, fromProto-Germanic*witōþą(“law”).

Noun

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wet f (pluralwetten,diminutivewetje n)

  1. law(rule)
  2. law(body of rules declared and/or enforced by a government)
  3. (physics)law of nature
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Further reading

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  • “wet” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Etymology 2

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Verb

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wet

  1. inflection ofwetten:
    1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. imperative

Indonesian

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Etymology

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FromDutchwet.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈwɛt]
  • Hyphenation:wèt

Noun

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wetorwèt

  1. law(rule)
    Synonyms:hukum,undang-undang

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishwǣt,wāt, andweten(“to wet”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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wet

  1. wet,watery
  2. (weather)wet,rainy
  3. liquid,fluid
  4. damp,moist,waterlogged
  5. (terrain)marshy,boggy
  6. (alchemy, medicine) Something that is considered alchemically wet
  7. teary,weepy
  8. bloody,bloodstained
  9. sweaty, having sweat

Descendants

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  • English:wet (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots:wat
  • Yola:weate

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Noun

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wet (pluralwetes orweten)

  1. Water or anotherliquid
  2. wetness;wateriness
  3. (alchemy, medicine) Alchemical wetness
  4. Rain,raininess
    • 15th c., “Pagina pastorum[Shepherds' Play, I]”, inWakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England,Alfred W. Pollard, editors,The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press,1897,→OCLC,page100, lines1–9:
      Lord, what they are weyll / that hens ar past! / ffor thay noght feyll / theym to downe cast. / here is makyll vnceyll / and long has it last, / Now in hart, now in heyll / now inweytt, now in blast / Now in care, / Now in comforth agane, / Now is fayre, now is rane, / Now in hart full fane, / And after full sare.
      Lord! They are well that are gone from here! For they do not feel anything, those who have been cast down. Here, there is much misery, and it lasts a long time: in one's heart, in hail, in rain, in wind or thunder, in care, then in comfort again, then fairness, then rain; at one point glad in heart, and after most grieved.

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North Frisian

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Verb

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wet

  1. second-personsingularpresent ofwel

Old Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle High Germanwette(“repayment”).[1][2][3][4] First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE)/vɛ(ː)t/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE)/vɛt/,/vet/

Noun

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wet m animacy unattested

  1. damages(monetary payment as compensation for a criminal act committed or as compensation for damage caused, also a court penalty imposed on a litigant)
    Synonyms:pokup,przykład
    • 1972 [15th century], Józef Reczek, Wacław Twardzik, editors,Najstarsze staropolskie tłumaczenie ortyli magdeburskich wg rkpsu nr 50, pages91, 1:
      Tedy mvszy (sc. powod) wyny awetty pokvpycz (opportet pro eo emendas et poenas dare)
      [Tedy musi (sc. powod) winy iwety pokupić (opportet pro eo emendas et poenas dare)]

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References

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  1. ^Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wet”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie,→ISBN
  2. ^Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “wet”, inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
  3. ^Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “wet”, inWielki słownik wyrazów obcych,→ISBN
  4. ^Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “wet”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa:PWN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “1. wet, weta”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN

Old Saxon

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Verb

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wēt

  1. first-personpresentindicative ofwitan
  2. third-personpresentindicative ofwitan

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromOld Polishwet.

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Noun

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wet m inan

  1. (obsolete except in set phrases)compensation(something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss)
    Synonyms:odpłacenie,odwzajemnienie
  2. (archaic, in theplural)dessert(sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal)
    Synonym:deser
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Declension ofwet
singularplural
nominativewetwety
genitivewetuwetów
dativewetowiwetom
accusativewetwety
instrumentalwetemwetami
locativeweciewetach
vocativeweciewety
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adverbs
particles
verbs

Etymology 2

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Clipping ofweterynarz. CompareEnglishvet.

Noun

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wet m pers

  1. (colloquial)Synonym ofweterynarz
Declension
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Declension ofwet
singularplural
nominativewetwetowie/wety (deprecative)
genitivewetawetów
dativewetowiwetom
accusativewetawetów
instrumentalwetemwetami
locativeweciewetach
vocativeweciewetowie/wety (deprecative)
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adjectives
nouns

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Noun

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wet n

  1. genitiveplural ofweto

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Noun

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wet f

  1. genitiveplural ofweta

Further reading

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  • wet inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wety inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wet”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “WET”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century],13.09.2022
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wet”, inSłownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wet”, inSłownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz,A. Kryński,W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wet”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page515

Tok Pisin

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Etymology 1

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FromEnglishwet.

Adjective

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wet

  1. wet

Etymology 2

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FromEnglishwait.

Verb

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wet

  1. wait

Wolof

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Noun

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wet (definite formwetgi)

  1. side

References

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Omar Ka (2018)Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center,→ISBN, page257

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