et

Possibly from either an abbreviation of English Estonian or Estonian eesti.

et

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Estonian terms

From Middle English et, from Old English ǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ēt. Doublet of ate.

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

et

1. (informal, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of ate, the simple past and past participle of eat.
   • 1896, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Tom Sawyer, Detective [4]:

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

   • 1907, O. Henry, Seats of the Haughty‎^[5]:

     '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^[6]:

     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!

   • 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 be et at the hamburger fry.

   • 2001, Richard Williams, The Animator's Survival Kit, page 220:

     Something I et?

   • 2004, Edward Lee, The Big Head, Overlook Connection Press, →ISBN, page 54:

     The girl screamed as The Bighead et 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, page 28:

     And when the last partridge was et, the last bit of Badajoz goat, I handed the waiter a Visa card.

• TE, te

• etje
• edia (“sete”), et (“senza”). ^[1]

Uncertain. Attested as "het" in Bogdani. 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 (aitéo, “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”).^[2]

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

1. (dated) thirst

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Inherited from Latin tē (accusative of tū).

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

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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 Proto-Turkic *et.

et

1. meat

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170809135120/http://www.classes.ru/all-crtatar/dictionary-crtatar-russian-cyr-term-14187.htm
• “et”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

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
• Hyphenation^(key): et

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

et

1. second-person singular indicative of ei

• etkö

et (colloquial)

1. (subordinating) apocopic form of että

Similar apocope is also found in poetic Finnish, but there it is generally spelled ett’.

Borrowed from Latin et (“and”).

et

1. (coordinating) And, especially as symbolized by an ampersand.

• Te, te

Inherited from Latin et.

et (ORB, broad)

1. and

• et in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• et in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French et, from Old French et, from Latin et. Often written as e in Old French, the spelling with t was re-established in the 12^th century based on the Latin spelling.

• IPA^(key): /e/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: ai, eh, hé

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]
• (Hevaha) 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^[7], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 128
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 24
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[8], →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

• &, ⁊
• ed (nonstandard)

From Proto-Italic *et, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)éti.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔτι (éti), Sanskrit अति (ati), Gothic 𐌹𐌸 (iþ, “and, but, however, yet”), Old English prefix ed- (“re-”). More at ed-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛt]
• Homophone: -et

et

1. and
2. both
   • 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Balbo 54:

     Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.

     Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.

3. (mathematics) plus

   Duo et duo sunt quattuor.

   Two plus two equals four.

4. (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

(Note: the descendants appear to reflect a Vulgar form *ed, by analogy with ad.)

et (not comparable)

1. also, too, besides, or likewise

   Synonym: quoque

   • 44 BCE, Cicero, De Officiis 1.133:

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

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

• 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, 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]‎^[9] (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

• eet

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̝ːt/ (from Old English ǣt), /eːt/ (from Old English ēt)

et

1. first/third-person singular past of eten (“to eat”)
   • c. 1390, [William Langland], “Paſſus quıntus de vıſıone vt supͣ”, in Peres plouhman (X, C-text), southwest Worcestershire, published c. 1395, folio 64, verso; republished as MS. HM 143, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:

     Ac of this mete þat mayſt[er] / myhte nat weˡ̭ chewe / Foꝛthy eet he mete of moꝛe coſt / moꝛtrewes and potages

     But that food the cleric couldn't really manage, / so he ate more expensive food: mortrews and pottages.

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.

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et

1. (Jersey) and
   • 2013 March, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier‎^[10], archived from the original on 13 March 2016, 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

et

1. (Mooring, Sylt) Reduced form of hat (“it”, subject)
2. (Mooring) Reduced form of ham (“it”, object)
3. (Sylt) Reduced form of höm (“it”, object)

• The form et is always unstressed, but not necessarily enclitic like other reduced forms.

• 't (enclitic)
• at (Föhr-Amrum)

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.

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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. inflection of eta:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key): /et/
• Rhymes: -et

et

1. singular imperative of etan

• 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, 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:

     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, eʼt, et”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 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] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 105
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “eʰt”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[11], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 90

• '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, 2004–present, →OCLC.

et^[1]

1. they (3rd person plural pronoun)

• mambééq (Bota)
• ennaay

et

1. eat

• A Grammar Sketch of Sougb, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)

Borrowed from Latin et.

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

et m (plural ets)

1. ampersand

   Synonyms: y comercial, ampersand

• “et”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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Cardinal: et

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/

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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. The muscle tissue of specifically beef or lamb used as food.

   et döner ― beef/lamb döner

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

et

1. second-person singular imperative of etmek

• “et”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

From Proto-Italic *et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

et (late Iguvine)

1. alternative form of 𐌄𐌕 (et)

• 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^[12], 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, page 195

Inherited from Chagatai ات (et), from Proto-Turkic *et. Compare Uyghur ئەت (et).

et (plural etlar)

1. flesh
2. meat

et

1. second-person plural present of ei

• eyet

From Old French et.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

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et

1. and

et

1. alternative form of at (“that”)^[1]
   • 1788, A YOLA ZONG.^[2]:

     An brough et i stell ing a emothee knaghane.

     And broke the handle, in an emmot hill.

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

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔeːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: ed⁷
• Hyphenation: et

et (Sawndip form 𬖋, 1957–1982 spelling et)

1. steamed leaf-wrapped cake made of glutinous rice paste