fet

See also: FET, Fet, and fèt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛt/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“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.

Derived terms

• farfet

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, published 1810:

     That the bottom clear,
     Now lay'd with many a fet
     of seed pearl,

Etymology 3

Noun

fet (plural not attested)

1. (BDSM, usually attributive) Clipping of fetish.
   • 1997, NuBabyByte, “Iron Shackles, Bare Feet”, in alt.torture (Usenet):

     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”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):

     It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• EFT, ETF, FTE, TFE, eft, tef

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin fētō. Compare Daco-Romanian făta.

Alternative forms

• fetu

Verb

fet first-singular present indicative (past participle fitatã)

1. to give birth, foal, litter, calve (of mammals)

Derived terms

• fitalj, fitaljiu
• fitari/fitare
• fitat
• fitãtoari

 

Related terms

• featã
• fetu

 

Etymology 2

From Latin fētus (“offspring, progreny”). Compare Daco-Romanian făt.

Alternative forms

• fetu

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

1. young child, boy

Related terms

• afetu
• featã
• fet
• ficior

 

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin factum. Compare Old French fet, Modern French fait. Compare also Spanish hecho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfet]
• Rhymes: -et

Noun

fet m (plural fets)

1. fact

Derived terms

• de fet

Participle

fet (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?

   Ka fet? ― What are you doing?

Czech

Etymology

Related to fetovat (“to do drugs; inhale, sniff”), of uncertain origin, but the "inhale" sense could be a derivation from Latin fetor (“stench, bad smell”), similar to Polish fetor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛt]

Noun

fet m inan

1. (colloquial, expressive) junk, drugs

Declension

Declension of fet (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	fet	fety
genitive	fetu	fetů
dative	fetu	fetům
accusative	fet	fety
vocative	fete	fety
locative	fetu	fetech
instrumental	fetem	fety

Further reading

• “fet” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “fet”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse fet, from Proto-Germanic *fetą, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

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

Declension of fet (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fet	fetið	fet	fetin
accusative	fet	fetið	fet	fetin
dative	feti	fetinu	fetum	fetunum
genitive	fets	fetsins	feta	fetanna

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

Historical inflection of fet indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural 1901 fit fiti fitjar fitjarne (fitjane) 1917 fita, fiti fitjane 1938 fita [fiti] 1959 fitjar [fiter] fitjane [fitene] 2012 (current) fet feta feter fetene Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

References

• “fet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feːt/

Noun

fēt

1. plural of fōt

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 oblique singular, 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 *swizdā, from Proto-Celtic *swizdeti (“to blow”). Related to Old Irish séitid and Welsh chwythu (“to blow”), Breton c'hwezh and Welsh chwyth (“breath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸʲed]

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

     is cosmart do rétaib ind ḟet

     the whistling is a signal by things

2. (musical intrument) pipe

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fetL	fitL	fetaH
Vocative	fetL	fitL	fetaH
Accusative	fitN	fitL	fetaH
Genitive	fiteH	fetL	fetN
Dative	fitL	fetaib	fetaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fetL	feitL	fetaH
Vocative	fetL	feitL	fetaH
Accusative	feitN	feitL	fetaH
Genitive	feiteH	fetL	fetN
Dative	feitL	fetaib	fetaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• fetán
• fetánach
• fetánacht
• fetchúisech
• fetgaire
• fetgal
• fetugud

 

Descendants

• Irish: fead
• Manx: fed
• Scottish Gaelic: fead

Mutation

Mutation of fet

radical	lenition	nasalization
fet	ḟet	fet pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fēter, from Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːt

Adjective

fet (comparative fetare, superlative fetast)

1. fat, obese (about people or animals)

   Fetare gubbe har jag nog aldrig sett tidigare. ― I don't think I've seen such a fat guy before.

2. containing much fat (about food)
3. being especially fertile, profitable or lucrative; (slang) good, extraordinary, phat (a general intensifier, usually positive)

   Du missade en riktigt fet chans. ― You missed quite a good opportunity.

   Shit, vilken fet bil du har köpt! ― Damn, what a nice/cool/phat car you've bought!

Inflection

Inflection of fet

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	fet	fetare	fetast
neuter singular	fett	fetare	fetast
plural	feta	fetare	fetast
masculine plural2	fete	fetare	fetast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	fete	fetare	fetaste
all	feta	fetare	fetaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

• fett (adverb)
• blekfet
• smällfet