-et

See also Appendix:Variations of "et"

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin -ittus.

Suffix

-et m. (masculine plural -ets, feminine -eta, feminine plural -etes)

1. Suffix indicating diminution or affection.

Derived terms

• Category:Catalan words suffixed with -et

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French

Etymology

From Latin -ittus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ/

Suffix

-et m. (feminine -ette)

1. Suffix indicating diminution or affection.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛt/

Suffix

-et

1. Added to a verb to form a noun.

   él (“to live”) → élet (“life”)

   ítél (“to judge”) → ítélet (“judgment”)

   mér (“to measure”) → méret (“size”)

2. Added to an occupation ending in -ész to form a collective noun.

   művész (“artist”) → művészet (“art”)

   lövész (“shooter”) → lövészet (“shooting as a sport”)

   kertész (“gardener”) → kertészet (“gardening establishment”)

   sebész (“surgeon”) → sebészet (“surgery, as a department in a hospital or as the field of medicine”)

3. Causative suffix for certain front vowel verbs.

   néz (“to look”) → nézet (“to make someone look at something”)

   ég (“to burn; intransitive”) → éget (“to make something burn”)

   mér (“to measure”) → méret (“to make someone measure something”)

4. The accusative case ending -t with an -e- linking vowel.

   kert (“garden”) → Láttam egy gyönyörű kertet. - I saw a beautiful garden.

Usage notes

This suffix is used only in front vowel words.

• (accusative suffix): Can be added to nouns, adjectives and numerals. Whether a linking vowel will be used is hard to predict and thus needs to be learned with each word. A rule of thumb, however, is that older and shorter words tend to incorporate a vowel, rather than simply use -t.

  -t is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-. Final -o in foreign words changes to -ó-.

  -ot is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -at is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -et is added to unrounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öt is added to rounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

See also

• -at (back vowel version)
• Category:Hungarian nouns suffixed with -et
• Category:Hungarian verbs suffixed with -et
• Category:Hungarian noun forms - accusative
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

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Middle French

Suffix

-et

1. Forms a diminutive, masculine noun

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Old English

Alternative forms

• -ot

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *-atjan, *-itjan

Suffix

-et n.

1. suffix forming nouns from verbs, adjectives, and other nouns (sometimes causes i-mutation)

   þēowot "service, religious service, ministry"

   grafet "trench"

   bærnet "a burning, combustion, cauterizing"

   emnet "level ground, leveling"

   eolet "voyage, departure"

   þiccet "thicket"

   rēwet "rowing; ship, row-boat"

   rȳmet "space, clearance, extension"

   þyrnet "thicket of thorns, thorny place"

Declension

    Declension of -et (strong a-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	-et	-ettu
accusative	-et	-ettu
genitive	-ettes	-etta
dative	-ette	-ettum

Usage notes

• -ot was originally used with class 2 weak verbs in -ian (from Proto-Germanic *-ojanan). Confer usages for -od, -ung, -oþ, -ol, -or

Descendants

• English thicket

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin -etum. Compare Italian -eto, French -aie.

Suffix

-et

1. used with plant or tree names to form names of orchards, woods, forests, or groves

Derived terms

• arboret, frăsinet, nucet, păltinet, ulmet

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Swedish

Suffix

-et

1. Suffix for definite form singular of neuter nouns, especially if they end with consonant or a stressed vowel.
2. Suffix for the neuter form of past participles of verbs belonging to the fourth declension (strong verbs). This may be analyzed as two morphemes: a combination of the suffix -en for past participle and -t for neuter, where the n. of the first suffix disappears. Such an analysis is historically correct.