fet

• IPA^(key): /fɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

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.

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

1. (obsolete) To fetch.

• farfet

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

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,

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.

• EFT, ETF, FTE, TFE, eft, tef

From Latin fētō. Compare Daco-Romanian făta.

• fetu

fet first-singular present indicative (past participle fitatã)

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

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

• fetu

fet m (plural fets)

1. young child, boy

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -et

fet m (plural fets)

1. fact

• de fet

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

1. past participle of fer

Contraction of föri + met

fet

1. what is someone doing?

   Ka fet? ― What are you doing?

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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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fet m inan

1. (colloquial, expressive) junk, drugs

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

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

• IPA^(key): /fɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

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)

• feit

From Old Norse feitr.

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

1. fat
2. fatty (especially food)

• fett (noun)

• “fet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• (non-standard since 2012) fit

From Old Norse fit f.

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

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

• “fet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /feːt/

fēt

1. plural of fōt

• Middle English: fet, feet
  • English: feet

From Latin factus.

fet

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

From Latin factum.

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

1. act; action
2. fact

• → English: feat
• Middle French: fait, faict
  • French: fait

• fet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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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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. 3^a7

     is cosmart do rétaib ind ḟet

     the whistling is a signal by things

2. (musical intrument) pipe

• Irish: fead
• Manx: fed
• Scottish Gaelic: fead

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

• IPA^(key): /feːt/

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• Rhymes: -eːt

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!

• fett (adverb)
• blekfet
• smällfet