annet

• annot, anny

From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned (“drake, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *anad (“duck”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oante (“duck”), West Frisian ein (“duck”), Dutch eend (“duck”), German Low German Aant (“duck”), German Ente (“duck”), Norwegian and Swedish and (“duck, mallard”), Icelandic önd (“duck”), Latin anas (“duck, drake”), Lithuanian antis (“duck, mallard”), Russian у́тка (útka, “duck”), Sanskrit आति (ātí, “aquatic bird”).

annet (plural annets)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A duck or drake.
2. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) The common eider (Somateria mollissima).
3. (UK, dialect, West Country, Cornwall, obsolete) A black-legged kittiwake.
4. (dialectal, figurative) A silly fellow; gull.

• stock annet

• drake

• anent

annet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of annō

Inherited from Danish andet. The pronunciation origin is probably from the Oslo area.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌ(ə)nt/, /ˈanːət/

annet

1. neuter singular of annen

   et annet - another

• annethvert
• annetkammer