eten

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eten/ [e.t̪ẽn]
• Rhymes: -eten, -en
• Hyphenation: e‧ten

Etymology 1

Verb

eten ? (imperfect participle eteten, future participle etengo or etenen, short form eten, verbal noun etete)

1. to break, separate
2. to stop, interrupt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

eten

1. genitive plural of eta

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.tə(n)/

• Audio (Netherlands):

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• Hyphenation: eten
• Rhymes: -eːtən
• Homophone: Eethen

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ēten, from Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

Verb

eten

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

   Synonyms: kanen, hachelen, vreten

Conjugation

Conjugation of eten (strong class 5)
infinitive	eten
past singular	at
past participle	gegeten
infinitive	eten
gerund	eten n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	eet	at
2nd person sing. (jij)	eet	at
2nd person sing. (u)	eet	at
2nd person sing. (gij)	eet	at
3rd person singular	eet	at
plural	eten	aten
subjunctive sing.1	ete	ate
subjunctive plur.1	eten	aten
imperative sing.	eet
imperative plur.1	eet
participles	etend	gegeten
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

proverbs

• de soep wordt nooit zo heet gegeten als ze wordt opgediend
• wat de boer niet kent, dat eet hij niet

nouns

• eetcultuur
• eetgewoonte
• eethuis
• eetstoornis
• eter
• het hele eiereneten

verbs

• afeten
• de kaas niet van het brood laten eten
• doodeten
• dooreten
• geëten
• ineten
• kaaleten
• kaas gegeten hebben
• leegeten
• mede-eten
• mee-eten
• na-eten
• ondereten
• opeten
• overeten
• tegeneten
• toe-eten
• uiteten
• vasteten
• vereten
• voleten
• vooreten
• voorteten
• voortseten
• wegeten

Related terms

• vreten

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eet
• Jersey Dutch: eîte
• Negerhollands: jeet, jit, yet
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: jet, jeet
• Petjo: eten

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb eten.

Noun

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

1. food
2. dinner

Derived terms

• avondeten
• etensbak
• etensrest
• etenstijd
• etenswaar
• middageten
• roet in het eten gooien

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ete

Anagrams

• neet, teen

Japanese

Romanization

eten

1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German ēten, from Old Saxon etan.

Cognate with Dutch eten, West Frisian ite, German essen, English eat, Danish æde, Nowegian ete, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːtən/

Verb

eten (past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to eat

Conjugation

Conjugation of eten (strong verb)

infinitive	eten
	present	preterite
1st person singular	eet	eet
2nd person singular	itts(t), etts(t)	eets(t)
3rd person singular	itt, ett	eet
plural	eet	eten
	imperative
singular	itt, eet
plural	eet
	present	past
participle	eten(d)	eëten, geëten, eten

Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

Derived terms

• Eten
• opeten
• övereten

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

Verb

ēten

1. to eat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: eten
  • Afrikaans: eet
• Limburgish: aete

Further reading

• “eten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “eten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette
• æten, etenn (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ̞ːtən/

Verb

eten (third-person singular simple present eteth, present participle etynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative et, past participle eten)

1. To eat, devour.
2. To consume or have a meal.
   • c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Introduction”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎^[1], Worcestershire, folio 371, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:

     Þe oþ᷑ rule is al w^toutẽ. ⁊ ruleþ þe bodı⹎ ⁊ bodılıche deden. þat techeþ al hou me ſchal beren hĩ wıþ outen. How. eten. How drınken. weren. syngen. slepen. waken.

     The other rule is entirely external; it governs the body and bodily doings. It contains everything [about] how you should behave externally: how to eat, how to drink, dress, sing, sleep, and keep a vigil.

3. To swallow, ingest.
4. (figurative) To derive might from something.
5. To gnaw, scrape at.
6. To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

Usage notes

• The finite past forms at, ate, aten are occasionally found; these reflect either the same analogical modification as modern English ate or the development of Proto-West Germanic *ā to /aː/ in East Saxon Middle English.

Conjugation

Conjugation of eten (strong class 5)

infinitive	(to) eten, ete
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	ete	et
2nd-person singular	etest	ete1
3rd-person singular	eteth	et
subjunctive singular	ete	ete2
imperative singular		—
plural3	eten, ete	eten, ete
imperative plural	eteth, ete	—
participles	etynge, etende	eten, ete, yeten, yete

¹ Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular or etest.
² Later replaced by the indicative.
³ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Related terms

• ete
• freten

Descendants

• English: eat
• Middle Scots: eit, eyt
  • Scots: eat, ait, aet
• Yola: ayth, eight

References

• “ēten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.
• Rettger, James Frederick (1934), “The Development of Ablaut in the Strong Verbs of the East Midland Dialects of Middle English”, in Language (Language Dissertations; 16)‎^[2], volume 10, number 4, Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2 (Special and Irregular Verbs), chapter 5 (Verbs of Class V), pages 136-138.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ten/

Noun

eten m

1. alternative form of eoten

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	eten	etenas
accusative	eten	etenas
genitive	etenes	etena
dative	etene	etenum

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “eten”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

Noun

eten

1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

Synonyms

• etylen

Further reading

• eten in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• enet