different between setten vs wetten

English

Etymology

From Middle English setten.

Verb

setten

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) alternative past participle of set

   He has setten up shop.

Anagrams

• set net, set-net, setnet, tenets

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *setten, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zet??n/

Verb

setten

1. to set, to place

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: zetten
  • Afrikaans: sit
• Limburgish: zètte

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cetten, zetten, settan, settæn, sætten, seit, sette, sete

Etymology

From Old English settan, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t?n/

Verb

setten

1. To seat, cause to sit
2. To be sitting, sit
3. To put, lay, set, place
4. To insert, place into, mount, install
5. To apply, attach, join
6. To erect, put up, build, construct
7. To set up, use, activate, ready
8. To heal (a wound; a bone)
9. To plant, grow, seed
10. To attack, strike
11. To remove, pull down
12. To bring, lead, guide, carry
13. To provide, offer, serve
14. To travel, journey, go
15. To appraise, value
16. To establish, prescribe, impose
17. To chair, head
18. To declare, write
19. To appoint
20. To cause, lead to

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: set
• Scots: sett, set

References

• “setten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

English

Etymology

From wet +? -en.

Verb

wetten (third-person singular simple present wettens, present participle wettening, simple past and past participle wettened)

1. (nonstandard, transitive) To make wet; to wet
   • 1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books (2012), ?ISBN, page 73:

     Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.t?(n)/
• Hyphenation: wet?ten
• Rhymes: -?t?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wetten, from Old Dutch *wetten, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *hwatjan?.

Verb

wetten

1. To whet, hone or rub on with something for the purpose of sharpening an object (typically a blade)
2. (figuratively) To prepare, make preparations.

Inflection

Derived terms

• wetsteen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

wetten

1. Plural form of wet

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wett?n, from Proto-West Germanic *waddj?n, from Proto-Germanic *wadj?n?. Cognate with Dutch wedden, English wed, Danish vædde, Icelandic veðja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?t?n/, [?v?tn?]
• Rhymes: -?tn?

Verb

wetten (weak, third-person singular present wettet, past tense wettete, past participle gewettet, auxiliary haben)

1. to bet

2. (colloquial) to be nearly certain of

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Wetten

Related terms

• Wette

Further reading

• “wetten” in Duden online
• “wetten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wett?n, from Proto-West Germanic *waddj?n, from Proto-Germanic *wadj?n?.

Cognate with German wetten, Dutch wedden, English wed, Icelandic veðja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væt?n/

Verb

wetten (third-person singular present wett, past participle gewett, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (intransitive) to bet

Conjugation