different between fet vs ret

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-Germanic *fetan? (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-Germanic *fat?n? (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.

Verb

fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)

1. (obsolete) to fetch

Etymology 2

Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

Noun

fet (plural fets)

1. (obsolete) a piece
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, "The Quest of Cynthia" (1810 reprint):

     That the bottom clear,

     Now lay'd with many a fet

     of seed pearl,

Etymology 3

Noun

fet (plural not attested)

1. (BDSM, slang) Clipping of fetish.
   • 1997, "NuBabyByte", Iron Shackles, Bare Feet (on newsgroup alt.torture)

     oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached.

   • 2003, "Morgane", Relatives turning up in the scene (on newsgroup soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm)

     It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

Anagrams

• EFT, ETF, FTE, TFE, eft, tef

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin f?t?. Compare Daco-Romanian f?ta.

Alternative forms

• fetu

Verb

fet (past participle fitatã)

1. (of mammals) give birth, foal, litter, calve

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Latin f?tus. Compare Daco-Romanian f?t.

Alternative forms

• fetu

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

1. young child, boy

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fet/
• Rhymes: -et

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

1. fact

Derived terms

• de fet

Verb

fet m (feminine feta, masculine plural fets, feminine plural fetes)

1. past participle of fer

Chuukese

Etymology

Contraction of föri + met

Contraction

fet

1. what is someone doing?

Icelandic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fet?, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

fet n (genitive singular fets, nominative plural fet)

1. step
2. (historical) a unit of measure equivalent to half an alin, or 3 lófar
3. foot (unit of measure equivalent to 12 inches)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• feit

Etymology

From Old Norse feitr

Adjective

fet (neuter singular fett, definite singular and plural fete, comparative fetere, indefinite superlative fetest, definite superlative feteste)

1. fat
2. fatty (especially food)

Related terms

• fett (noun)

References

• “fet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 2012) fit

Etymology

From Old Norse fit f.

Noun

fet f (definite singular feta, indefinite plural feter, definite plural fetene)

1. a grassy meadow, especially near a body of water

Inflection

References

• “fet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?t/

Noun

f?t

1. plural of f?t

Descendants

• Middle English: fet, feet
  • English: feet

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin factus.

Verb

fet

1. past participle of fere
2. third-person singular present indicative of fere

Etymology 2

From Latin factum.

Noun

fet m (oblique plural fez or fetz, nominative singular fez or fetz, nominative plural fet)

1. act; action
2. fact

Descendants

• ? English: feat
• Middle French: fait, faict
  • French: fait

References

• fet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wintos (“wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ed/

Noun

fet f (genitive fite or feite, nominative plural feta)

1. whistling, hissing, the sound of a sword cleaving the air
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 3^a7

2. (musical intrument) pipe

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: fead
• Manx: fed
• Scottish Gaelic: fead

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “fet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish f?ter, from Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?t/

Adjective

fet (comparative fetare, superlative fetast)

1. fat, obese (about people or animals)

2. containing much fat (about food)
3. being especially fertile, profitable or lucrative; (slang) good, extraordinary, phat (a general intensifier, usually positive)

Derived terms

• fett (adverb)
• smällfet

Inflection

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse fet, from Proto-Germanic *fet?.

Noun

fet n

1. footstep, step

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch r?ten, reeten (compare Middle Low German r?ten; Middle High German r?zen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijan? (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.

Verb

ret (third-person singular simple present rets, present participle retting, simple past and past participle retted)

1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XLVIII:

     the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 621:

     the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring

Derived terms

• retter

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Adjective

ret

1. retired

Translations

Anagrams

• ERT, ETR, TER, ert, ter, ter-

Acehnese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/
• (Banda Aceh) IPA^(key): [r?t]

Noun

ret

1. road

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ret/

Etymology 1

From Latin rete (“net”).

Noun

ret m (plural rets)

1. hairnet

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ret

1. third-person singular present indicative form of retre
2. second-person singular imperative form of retre

Further reading

• “ret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?t?. Compare Russian ??? (rot, “mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/

Noun

ret m inan

1. lip

Declension

Derived terms

• rt?nka f

Further reading

• ret in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ret in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/, [??ad?], [???d?]
• Homophone: rat

Etymology 1

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, cognate with Swedish rätt, rät, English right, German recht, gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?re?tós, hence Latin r?ctus (“straight”), Ancient Greek ??????? (orektós, “stretched out”).

Adjective

ret (plural and definite singular attributive rette)

1. straight

2. right, proper
3. rightful

   Synonym: retmæssig Antonym: uretmæssig

4. plain (in knitting)

   Antonym: vrang

Adverb

ret

1. straight
2. rightly, properly
3. rather, quite

Etymology 2

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtuz, related to the adjective *rehtaz. The Danish word has been influenced by the German cognates Recht (“right, law”) and Gericht (“court”). The meaning “course of food” is influenced by Middle Low German richte and German Gericht.

Noun

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

1. (uncountable) justice, law

   Synonyms: jura, lov, justits

2. court, courtroom, lawcourt (institution)
3. courtroom (physical location)
   • 2016, Louise Damløv, Cecilie Kallestrup, Tre meter fra Breivik: En beretning fra Nordens største terrorretssag, Informations Forlag (?ISBN)

     Kun omkring halvdelen af de vidner, forsvaret havde indkaldt for at sandsynliggøre, at Breiviks ideologi ikke var galemandssnak, mødte op i retten.

     Only about half of the witness that the defense had summoned to support that Brevik's ideology was not the talk of a madman appeared in court.

   • 2017, Nadine Gordimer (tr. by Finn Holten Hansen), Æresgæst, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN)

     Retten var fyldt, og ansigter blev ved med at kigge ind ad vinduerne fra en voksende mængde udenfor.

     The courtroom was full, and faces kept looking in through the windows from a growing crowd outside.

   Synonym: retssal

4. (uncountable) right, entitlement

   Alle mennesker har ret til basal respekt.

   All humans have a right to basic respect.

   Synonym: rettighed

5. dish, course (of food)
6. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric')

Inflection

References

“ret,1” in Den Danske Ordbog“ret,2” in Den Danske Ordbog“ret,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ret

1. imperative of rette

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English red.

Adjective

ret

1. red

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (redd), from Arabic ????? (radd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

ret (definite accusative reddi, plural retler)

1. refusal
2. denial

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Derived from riit.

Noun

ret

1. (hunting) A flag or stake that is used as a signal in the seal hunting grounds, or as you put on the boat to find it again among the icebergs when departing from it to hunt.

Verb

ret

1. The singular active preterite indicative of riit.