From Late Middle Dutch vermetel, from vermeten (“audacious, overconfident”) influenced by -el, originally a reflexive verb meaning “to overestimate oneself, to be overconfident, to mismeasure”, from ver- + meten, related to mate. Equivalent to ver- + meten with assimilation to -el.
vermetel (comparative vermeteler, superlative vermetelst)
Declension of vermetel | ||||
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uninflected | vermetel | |||
inflected | vermetele | |||
comparative | vermeteler | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | vermetel | vermeteler | het vermetelst het vermetelste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | vermetele | vermetelere | vermetelste |
n. sing. | vermetel | vermeteler | vermetelste | |
plural | vermetele | vermetelere | vermetelste | |
definite | vermetele | vermetelere | vermetelste | |
partitive | vermetels | vermetelers | — |
vermetel