Eten

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

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

eten

1. genitive plural of eta

• IPA(key): /ˈeː.tə(n)/
• Audio (Netherlands):(file)
• Hyphenation: eten
• Rhymes: -eːtən
• Homophone: Eethen

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

eten

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat Synonyms: kanen, hachelen, vreten

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.

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

Gerund of the verb eten.

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

1. food
2. dinner

• Afrikaans: ete

• neet, teen

eten

1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

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.

• IPA(key): /ˈeːtən/

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

1. to eat

• Eten
• opeten
• övereten

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

ēten

1. to eat

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

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

• eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette
• æten, etenn (Early Middle English); etyn (East Anglia)

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

• IPA(key): /ˈɛ̞ːtən/

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.
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)

• 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.

• ete
• freten

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

• “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.

• IPA(key): /ˈe.ten/

eten m

1. alternative form of eoten

Strong a-stem:

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

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

eten

1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

• etylen

• “eten”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

• enet