ét

• et

ét

1. neuter singular of en

ét

1. neuter singular of en

Accent is optional, and reflects intonation. Compare, for example, hun har kun et bord "she only has a table" with hun har kun ét bord "she has only one table".

From the original e- stem of eszik (“to eat”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈeːt]

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• Rhymes: -eːt

ét (plural étek)

1. (obsolete) food

   Synonyms: étel, élelem

2. (obsolete) eating

   Synonyms: evés, étkezés

3. (archaic, regional) appetite

   Synonym: étvágy

Today it is used only in compounds and idioms. In the early 20th century it was also applied in regionalism with the similarly obsolete term it (“drink[ing]”).

• ét in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (“A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
• ét in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): [eːd]

From Proto-Celtic *yantus, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos) and Sanskrit यत्न (yatna, “zeal”)), यस्यति (yasyati, “strive for”).

ét m (genitive éuit)

1. jealousy; envy, emulation
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^b20

     trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis

     through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [me]

2. enthusiasm, zeal

• ǽt

• étach
• étaigidir

• Irish: éad
• Manx: ead
• Scottish Gaelic: eud

From Proto-Celtic *intā, containing the prefix in-.

ét f

1. verbal noun of ad·cota

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ét ‘jealousy’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ét (verbal noun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Compare ít, which is likely its variant.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛt̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛt̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛk̚˦˥]

ét

1. (only in compounds) very few, very little

• té