wetten

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English

Etymology

From wet +‎ -en.

Verb

wetten (third-person singular simple present wettens, present participle wettening, simple past and past participle wettened)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To make wet; to wet
    • 1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73:
      Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɛ.tə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: wet‧ten
  • Rhymes: -ɛtən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wetten, from Old Dutch *wetten, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną.

Verb

wetten

  1. To whet, hone or rub on with something for the purpose of sharpening an object (typically a blade)
  2. (figuratively) To prepare, make preparations.
  3. (poetic) To point as a weapon.
Inflection
Inflection of wetten (weak)
infinitive wetten
past singular wette
past participle gewet
infinitive wetten
gerund wetten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular wet wette
2nd person sing. (jij) wet wette
2nd person sing. (u) wet wette
2nd person sing. (gij) wet wette
3rd person singular wet wette
plural wetten wetten
subjunctive sing.1 wette wette
subjunctive plur.1 wetten wetten
imperative sing. wet
imperative plur.1 wet
participles wettend gewet
1) Archaic.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wetten

  1. plural of wet

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wettōn, from Proto-West Germanic *waddjōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną. Cognate with Dutch wedden, English wed, Danish vædde, Icelandic veðja, Yiddish וועטן (vetn).

Pronunciation

Verb

wetten (weak, third-person singular present wettet, past tense wettete, past participle gewettet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to bet
    wetten, dass…(try to) make sure that something is safe
  2. (colloquial) to be nearly certain of
    Ich wette, Lisa wartet schon auf uns.I bet Lisa is waiting for us already.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • wetten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • wetten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • wetten” in Duden online
  • wetten” in OpenThesaurus.de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wettōn, from Proto-West Germanic *waddjōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną.

Cognate with German wetten, Dutch wedden, English wed, Icelandic veðja.

Pronunciation

Verb

wetten (third-person singular present wett, past participle gewett, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (intransitive) to bet

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive wetten
participle gewett
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular wetten
2nd singular wetts wett
3rd singular wett
1st plural wetten
2nd plural wett wett
3rd plural wetten
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.