eten

• IPA^(key): /eten/ [e.t̪ẽn]
• Rhymes: -eten, -en
• Hyphenation: e‧ten

eten ? (imperfect participle eteten, future participle etengo or etenen, short form eten, verbal noun etete)

1. to break, separate
2. to stop, interrupt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

eten

1. genitive plural of eta

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.tə(n)/

• Audio (Netherlands):

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• Hyphenation: eten
• Rhymes: -eːtən
• Homophone: Eethen

From Middle Dutch ēten, from Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

eten

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

• Afrikaans: eet
• Jersey Dutch: eîte
• Negerhollands: jeet, jit, yet
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: jet, jeet
• Petjo: eten

Gerund of the verb eten.

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

1. food
2. dinner

• Afrikaans: ete

• neet, teen

eten

1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

From Middle Low German ēten, from Old Saxon etan.

Cognate with Dutch eten, West Frisian ite, German essen, English eat, Danish æde, Nowegian ete, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːtən/

eten (past singular eet, past participle , auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to eat

• Eten
• opeten
• övereten

From Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

ēten

1. to eat

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

• “eten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “eten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette
• æten, etenn (Early Middle English)

From Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːtən/

eten (third-person singular simple present eteth, present participle etynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative et, past participle eten)

1. To eat, devour
2. To consume or have a meal
3. To swallow, ingest
4. (figurative) To derive might from something
5. To gnaw, scrape at
6. To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

• ete
• freten

• English: eat
• Scots: ait, aet, eat, eit, ete
• Yola: at, ayth, eight

• “ēten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ten/

eten m

1. alternative form of eoten

Strong a-stem:

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

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

eten

1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

• etylen

• eten in Svensk ordbok.

• enet