æta

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiːta/

  Rhymes: -aiːta

From Old Norse æta, from Proto-Germanic *ētijǭ.

æta f (genitive singular ætu, nominative plural ætur)

1. food
2. a small stream of water in the ice on a frozen river
3. (obsolete) cancer
4. (in compounds) eater, -vore

• hrææta (“carrion-eater, scavenger”)
• kjötæta (“carnivore”)
• mauraæta (“anteater”)
• náæta (“ghoul”)

Coined from eta, éta (“to eat”), based on German ätzen, Danish ætse (whence the loanword ætsa).

æta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ætti, supine ætt)

1. to corrode

• æting

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

From Proto-Germanic *ētijô. Equivalent to etan (“to eat”) +‎ -a (agent suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.tɑ/

ǣta m

1. (attested only in compounds) eater

• selfǣta
• hlāfǣta

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǽta”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Old Norse eta, from Proto-Germanic *etaną.

æta

1. to eat
2. to chew, bite

• Swedish: äta