nieten

• IPA^(key): /ˈnitə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -itən

From niet +‎ -en.

nieten

1. (transitive) to staple

   Een naaimachine naait en een nietmachine niet.

   A sewing machine sews and a stapler staples.

• → Papiamentu: nit

From Middle Dutch nieten, from Old Dutch nietan, from Proto-Germanic *neutaną.

nieten

1. (obsolete) synonym of genieten

• genieten

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nieten

1. plural of niet

• ente in, inente

From Middle High German nieten, from Old High German *niotan, *hniotan, from Proto-West Germanic *hneudan, from Proto-Germanic *hneudaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːtn̩/, /ˈniːtən/

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nieten (weak, third-person singular present nietet, past tense nietete, past participle genietet, auxiliary haben)

1. to rivet

• Niet
• Niete

• → Swedish: nita
  • → Finnish: niitata
• → Danish: nitte

• “nieten” in Duden online
• “nieten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch nietan, from Proto-Germanic *neutaną.

nieten

1. to employ, to use (to one's advantage)
2. to enjoy (the use of)

• genieten

• Dutch: nieten (obsolete)
• Limburgish: nete

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

• nīten, nȳten

From nēat +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈni͜yː.ten/

nīeten n

1. animal
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"

     Culfre is bilewite nȳten, and fram geallan biternysse ælfremed.

     A dove is a meek animal, and a stranger to the bitterness of gall.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Fēower hund and ðūsend cræta hē hæfde, and twelf ðūsend riddena; þrēo ðūsend biġspella hē ġesette, and fīf ðūsend lēoða; and asmēade bē ǣlċum trēowcynne, fram ðām hēagan ċēderbēame, oðpæt hē cōm tō ðǣre lȳtlan ysopan. Ēac swylċe bē nȳtenum, and fixum, and fugelum hē smēade, and of eallum lēodum cōmon menn tō ġehȳrenne Salomones wīsdōm.

     He had one thousand, four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; he composed three thousand proverbs, and five thousand songs; and he contemplated on every kind of tree, from the tall cedar, to the little hyssop. Likewise, he contemplated animals, and fixum, and birds, and people came from every tribe in order to hear Solomon's wisdom.

Strong a-stem:

• nīetenlīċ (“brutish”)
• nīetencynn
• weorcnīeten (“work animal”)