-et

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Contents 1 Catalan 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Suffix 1.2.1 Derived terms 2 Esperanto 2.1 Suffix 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Suffix 4 Hungarian 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Suffix 4.2.1 Usage notes 4.3 See also 5 Old English 5.1 Alternative forms 5.2 Etymology 5.3 Suffix 5.3.1 Declension 5.3.2 Usage notes 5.3.3 Descendants 6 Swedish 6.1 Suffix

[edit] Catalan

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From Latin -ittus.

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-et m. (feminine -eta)

1. Suffix indicating diminution or affection.

[edit] Derived terms

• Category:Catalan words suffixed with -et

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[edit] Esperanto

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-et

1. denotes smallness in size or intensity, as in dormeti (nap) from dormi (sleep), or varmeta (warm) from varma (hot).

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin -ittus.

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-et (feminine -ette) m.

1. Suffix indicating diminution or affection.

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛt/

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-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.

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

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

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[edit] Old English

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• -ot

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *-atjan, -itjan

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-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"

[edit] Declension

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

[edit] Usage notes

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

[edit] Descendants

• English thicket

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[edit] Swedish

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-et

1. Suffix for definite form singular of neuter nouns, esp. 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.