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fet

See also: FET, Fet, and fèt

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-.

Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.

Verb

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fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)

  1. (obsolete) To fetch.
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Etymology 2

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Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

Noun

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fet (plural fets)

  1. (obsolete) A piece.
    • 1627, Michael Drayton, The Quest of Cynthia, published 1810:
      That the bottom clear,
      Now lay'd with many a fet
      of seed pearl,

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Noun

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fet (plural not attested)

  1. (BDSM, usually attributive) Clipping of fetish.
    • 1997, NuBabyByte, “Iron Shackles, Bare Feet”, in alt.torture (Usenet):
      oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached.
    • 2003, Morgane, “Relatives turning up in the scene”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
      It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Aromanian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin fētō. Compare Daco-Romanian făta.

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Verb

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fet first-singular present indicative (past participle fitatã)

  1. to give birth, foal, litter, calve (of mammals)
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Etymology 2

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From Latin fētus (“offspring, progreny”). Compare Daco-Romanian făt.

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Noun

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fet m (plural fets)

  1. young child, boy
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait. Compare also Spanish hecho.

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Noun

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fet m (plural fets)

  1. fact

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Participle

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fet (feminine feta, masculine plural fets, feminine plural fetes)

  1. past participle of fer

Chuukese

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Etymology

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Contraction of föri + met

Contraction

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fet

  1. what is someone doing?
    Ka fet? ― What are you doing?

Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Related to fetovat (“to do drugs; inhale, sniff”), of uncertain origin, but the "inhale" sense could be a derivation from Latin fetor (“stench, bad smell”), similar to Polish fetor.

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Noun

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fet m inan

  1. (colloquial, expressive) junk, drugs

Declension

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Declension of fet (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative fet fety
genitive fetu fetů
dative fetu fetům
accusative fet fety
vocative fete fety
locative fetu fetech
instrumental fetem fety

Further reading

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  • “fet” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz
  • “fet”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse fet, from Proto-Germanic *fetą, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

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Noun

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fet n (genitive singular fets, nominative plural fet)

  1. step
  2. (historical) a unit of measure equivalent to half an alin, or 3 lófar
  3. foot (unit of measure equivalent to 12 inches)

Declension

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Declension of fet (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fet fetið fet fetin
accusative fet fetið fet fetin
dative feti fetinu fetum fetunum
genitive fets fetsins feta fetanna

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse feitr.

Adjective

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fet (neuter singular fett, definite singular and plural fete, comparative fetere, indefinite superlative fetest, definite superlative feteste)

  1. fat
  2. fatty (especially food)
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fit f.

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fet f (definite singular feta, indefinite plural feter, definite plural fetene)

  1. a grassy meadow, especially near a body of water

Inflection

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Historical inflection of fet
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
1901 fit fiti fitjar fitjarne (fitjane)
1917 fita, fiti fitjane
1938 fita [fiti]
1959 fitjar [fiter] fitjane [fitene]
2012 (current) fet feta feter fetene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fēt

  1. plural of fōt

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  • Middle English: fet, feet

Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Latin factus.

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fet

  1. past participle of fere
  2. third-person singular present indicative of fere

Etymology 2

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From Latin factum.

Noun

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fet oblique singular, m (oblique plural fez or fetz, nominative singular fez or fetz, nominative plural fet)

  1. act; action
  2. fact
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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *swizdā, from Proto-Celtic *swizdeti (“to blow”). Related to Old Irish séitid and Welsh chwythu (“to blow”), Breton c'hwezh and Welsh chwyth (“breath”).[1]

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Noun

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fet f (genitive fite or feite, nominative plural feta)

  1. whistling, hissing, the sound of a sword cleaving the air
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 3a7
      is cosmart do rétaib ind ḟet
      the whistling is a signal by things
  2. (musical intrument) pipe

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fetL fitL fetaH
Vocative fetL fitL fetaH
Accusative fitN fitL fetaH
Genitive fiteH fetL fetN
Dative fitL fetaib fetaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fetL feitL fetaH
Vocative fetL feitL fetaH
Accusative feitN feitL fetaH
Genitive feiteH fetL fetN
Dative feitL fetaib fetaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of fet
radical lenition nasalization
fet ḟet fet
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish fēter, from Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

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Adjective

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fet (comparative fetare, superlative fetast)

  1. fat, obese (about people or animals)
    Fetare gubbe har jag nog aldrig sett tidigare. ― I don't think I've seen such a fat guy before.
  2. containing much fat (about food)
  3. being especially fertile, profitable or lucrative; (slang) good, extraordinary, phat (a general intensifier, usually positive)
    Du missade en riktigt fet chans. ― You missed quite a good opportunity.
    Shit, vilken fet bil du har köpt! ― Damn, what a nice/cool/phat car you've bought!

Inflection

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Inflection of fet
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular fet fetare fetast
neuter singular fett fetare fetast
plural feta fetare fetast
masculine plural2 fete fetare fetast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 fete fetare fetaste
all feta fetare fetaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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