eten
Middle English
/ˈɛːtən/
verb
Definitions
- To eat, devour
- To consume or have a meal
- To swallow, ingest
- (figurative) To derive might from something
- To gnaw, scrape at
- To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English etan (eat) inherited from Proto-Germanic *etaną (eat).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*etaną
Gloss
eat
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- eat English
- eatability English
- eatable English
- eatage English
- eatathon English
- eater English
- eatery English
- eatest English
- eateth English
- eatworthy English
- ettin English
- fress English
- miseat English
- ort English
- outeat English
- overeat English
- sleep-eat English
- sleepeat English
- undereat English
- uneat English
- *h₁ed- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁édti Proto-Indo-European
- *at Proto-Germanic
- *at- Proto-Germanic
- *at-, *ēta- Proto-Germanic
- *etaną Proto-Germanic
- *etunaz Proto-Germanic
- eoten Old English
- etan Old English
- fretan Old English
- geetan Old English
- þurhetan Old English
- eta Old Norse
- fråse Danish
- ezzan Old High German
- 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *etan gmw-pro
- etan Old Dutch
- etan Old Saxon
- eta Old Frisian
- ita Old Frisian
- iit North Frisian