different between evert vs evet

English

Etymology

From Late Latin ?vertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ?vertere, present active infinitive of ?vert? (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vert? (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /i?v?t/, /?-/

Verb

evert (third-person singular simple present everts, present participle everting, simple past and past participle everted)

1. (transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
3. (transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
4. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with avert.

Conjugation

Related terms

• everse
• eversion
• everted (adjective)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• revet, terve

English

Alternative forms

• evat

Etymology

See eft.

Noun

evet (plural evets)

1. The common newt or eft.
2. (US) Any of several species of aquatic salamanders.

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v?t]
• Hyphenation: evet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

evet (plural evetek)

1. (archaic) squirrel

   Synonym: mókus

Declension

Further reading

• evet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (evet), from Proto-Turkic *ebe (“good”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????????????????? (yemet, “yes”), Chuvash ???? (avan). Replaced the formerly prevalent ha (“yes”), now largely limited to dialectal and colloquial use.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.vet/

Interjection

evet

1. yes

Particle

evet

1. yes

Synonyms

• ha

Antonyms

• hay?r
• yok

References