different between wetted vs wetten

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?t?d/
• Homophone: whetted

Verb

wetted

1. simple past tense and past participle of wet

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