different between worry vs fet

English

Etymology

From Middle English worien, werien, wirien, wirwen, wyry?en (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyr?an, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *wer??- (“bind, squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit ????? (v?hati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver?žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) ?????????? (otverzát?, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?w??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??i/, /?w?i/
• (General New Zealand, General Australian, non-standard) IPA^(key): /?w??i/
• (West Country, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?w???i/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -?ri

Homophone: wurry

Verb

worry (third-person singular simple present worries, present participle worrying, simple past and past participle worried)

1. (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.

2. (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.

3. (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.

4. (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
5. (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
   • 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:

     So what if I wanted to touch my nose to the windshield? Who was it hurting? Why was it that he could repeatedly worry his change and bite his lower lip without the threat of punishment?

   • 2002, Masha Hamilton, Staircase of a Thousand Steps, page 272:

     No stories, no arguments. He just worries his prayer beads.

6. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
   • 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:

     We read (Law's Memor. Pref. lix.) that "one John Brugh, a notorious warlock (wizard) in the parochin of Fossoquhy, by the space of thirty-six years, was worried at a stake and burned, 1643."

Synonyms

• (trouble mentally): fret

Derived terms

• beworry
• worried

Translations

Noun

worry (countable and uncountable, plural worries)

1. A strong feeling of anxiety.

2. An instance or cause of such a feeling.

3. A person who causes worry.

Derived terms

• worrisome
• worryful
• worryless

Translations

Scots

Verb

worry

1. (transitive) To strangle.

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