etan

etan

1. inessive singular of eta

• ethan

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛtan]

etan m inan

1. (organic chemistry) ethane (C₂H₆)

• metan
• propan
• butan
• pentan
• hexan
• heptan
• oktan
• nonan
• dekan
• undekan
• dodekan

• “etan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “etan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “etan”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

etan

1. accusative singular of eta

etan n (genitive singular etans, no plural)

1. (organic chemistry) ethane

• etanól
• eten

etan n (definite singular etanet) (uncountable)

1. ethane (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₂H₆)

etan n (definite singular etanet) (uncountable)

1. ethane (as above)

Cognates include Yoruba ìtàn.

• IPA^(key): /è.tã̀/

ètàn (plural ètànzhì)

1. history
2. tradition
3. lineage ; genealogy

From e- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ tán (“to pain”).

• IPA^(key): /e.tã́/

etán (plural etánzhì)

1. pain

From Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

etan

1. to eat

• Middle Dutch: ēten
  • Dutch: eten
    • Afrikaans: eet
  • Limburgish: aete

• “etan (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• eata — Northumbrian
• eotan
• ætan

From Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.tɑn/

etan

1. to eat
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.

     I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Wearð þæt unġemetlīċe myċle ġefeoht betwuh Crētense, ⁊ Atheniense, þǣm folcum. ⁊ þā Crētense hæfdon ðone grimlēċan siġe, ⁊ ealle þā æþelestan bearn þāra Athēniensa hȳ ġenomon, ⁊ sealdon þǣm Mīnōtaurō tō etanne, þæt wæs healf mon healf lēo.

     There was an immensely great war between the Cretans and the Athenians. And the Cretans won a grim victory, and they took all the most noble of the Athenian children and gave them to the Minotaur, who was half man and half lion, for him to eat.

• The attested forms of the second and third person singular present tense of this verb are quite varied; the former is attested as itst, etest, etst, ytst, and ætst, and the latter as it, yt, ytt, et, ett, eteþ, ieteþ, yteþ, and iteþ.

• efnetan
• ġeetan
• þurhetan

• Middle English: eten, eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette, æten, etenn (Early Middle English)
  • English: eat
  • Scots: ait, aet, eat, eit, ete
  • Yola: at, ayth, eight

From Proto-West Germanic *etan.

etan

1. to eat

• Middle Low German: ēten
  • Low German: eten

Borrowed from English ethane. By surface analysis, etyl +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.tan/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtan
• Syllabification: e‧tan

etan m inan

1. ethane

• etan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• etan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French éthane.

etan m (uncountable)

1. ethane

From English ethane; equivalent to etyl +‎ -an.

etan n (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) ethane

• Aten, ante, enat