wetten

From wet +‎ -en.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɛ.tə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: wet‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɛtən

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

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

• wetsteen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wetten

1. plural of wet

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛtən/,

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• Rhymes: -ɛtn̩

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.

• Wetten

• Wette

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvætən/

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

1. (intransitive) to bet