different between patten vs putten

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pat(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæt(?)n/
• Homophone: paten

Noun

patten (plural pattens)

1. Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs. [from 14th c.]
   • 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 24 Jan 1660:

     I went and told part of the excise money till twelve o’clock, and then called on my wife and took her to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:

     Nobody had appeared belonging to the house except a person in pattens, who had been poking at the child from below with a broom; I don't know with what object, and I don't think she did.

2. (now historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground. [form 16th c.]
   • 1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth:

     Mrs. Peerybingle, going out into the raw twilight, and clicking over the wet stones in a pair of pattens that worked innumerable rough impressions of the first proposition in Euclid all about the yard—Mrs. Peerybingle filled the kettle at the water-butt.

   • 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, p. 60:

     The servant, who wasn't able to reach the flying coach, picked the patten [transl. chianiello] up from the ground and brought it to the king, telling him what had happened.

3. (obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing. [18th–19th c.]
4. (now Britain dialectal) An ice skate. [from 17th c.]
5. (historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
6. The base of a pillar.

Derived terms

• pattener
• pattenmaker

Translations

See also

• clog
• chopine
• geta
• sabot
• sandal

Verb

patten (third-person singular simple present pattens, present participle pattening, simple past and past participle pattened)

1. (intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

patten (plural pattens)

1. Obsolete form of paten.

Anagrams

• patent, pét-nat

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

patten m

1. definite singular of patte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• patta

Noun

patten

1. definite masculine singular of patte

Swedish

Noun

patten

1. definite singular of patte

Anagrams

• patent

English

Etymology

From Middle English putten, puten, poten. Compare Scots putten.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?t?n/

Verb

putten

1. (Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country dialect) past participle of put

   She had putten her watch on the table.

Anagrams

• netput

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch putten. Equivalent to put +? -en.

Verb

putten

1. to extract, to derive

Inflection

Derived terms

• uitputten

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English putt.

Verb

putten

1. (golf) to putt

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

putten

1. Plural form of put

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From put +? -en.

Verb

putten

1. to extract (water) from a well
2. to dig a pit

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: putten
• Limburgish: pötte

Further reading

• “putten”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “putten”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• putte, putton, puten, puthe, puiten, pitten

Etymology

From Old English putian.

Verb

putten

1. to put

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: put, pote
• Scots: put, pit
• Yola: pidh, pit

References

• “putten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Noun

putten

1. definite singular of putt