English

Suffix

-et

1. Used to form diminutives, loosely construed.

Related terms

• -ette

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin -ittus.

Suffix

-et m ‎(masculine plural -ets, feminine -eta, feminine plural -etes)

1. Suffix indicating diminution or affection.

Derived terms

Danish

Suffix

-et

1. Forms past participles of some verbs, like -t.
2. Forms the definite singular of most neuter nouns.
3. Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "like noun"; -esque.

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Middle French -et, from Old French -et, from Late Latin -ittus .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

Suffix

-et m ‎(feminine -ette)

1. Suffix indicating diminution or affection.

Derived terms

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛt]

Suffix

-et

1. (noun suffix) Added to a verb to form a noun, expressing the result of the action.

   él ‎(“to live”) → élet ‎(“life”)

   ítél ‎(“to judge”) → ítélet ‎(“judgment”)

   mér ‎(“to measure”) → méret ‎(“measurement, size”)

2. Added to an occupation ending in -ész to form a collective noun.

   művész ‎(“artist”) → művészet ‎(“art”)

   lövész ‎(“shooter”) → lövészet ‎(“shooting as a sport”)

   kertész ‎(“gardener”) → kertészet ‎(“gardening establishment”)

   sebész ‎(“surgeon”) → sebészet ‎(“surgery, as a department in a hospital or as the field of medicine”)

3. (accusative suffix) Used to form the accusative case.

   kert ‎(“garden”) → Láttam egy gyönyörű kertet. - I saw a beautiful garden.

4. (causative suffix) Added to a verb (or extremely rarely to a noun) to form a verb with a meaning of let, make somebody do something.

   néz ‎(“to look”) → nézet ‎(“to make someone look at something”)

   ég ‎(“to burn; intransitive”) → éget ‎(“to make something burn”)

   mér ‎(“to measure”) → méret ‎(“to make someone measure something”)

Usage notes

• (accusative suffix): It can be added to nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns. Whether a suffix-initial vowel (linking vowel) will be used is hard to predict and thus needs to be learned with each word. A rule of thumb, however, is that older and shorter words tend to incorporate a vowel, rather than simply use -t. Variants:

  -t is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-. Final -o in foreign words changes to -ó-.

  -ot is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -at is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -et is added to unrounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

  -öt is added to rounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

• (causative suffix) Variants:

  -at is added to back vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words

  vár ‎(“to wait”) → várat ‎(“to have someone wait”)

  -et is added to front vowel words ending in a consonant + t and most monosyllabic words

  kér ‎(“to ask for”) → kéret ‎(“to have someone ask for”)

  -tat is added to back vowel words ending in a vowel + t

  tisztít ‎(“to clean”) → tisztíttat ‎(“to have someone clean”)

  -tet is added to front vowel words ending in a vowel + t

  keres ‎(“to look for”) → kerestet ‎(“to have someone look for”)

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /et/, [ɛt]
• Homophone: et

Suffix

-et

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of -ō

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French -et.

Suffix

-et

1. Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.

Descendants

• French: -et

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *-ëjëtēk.

Suffix

-et

1. Forms momentane verbs.

   njuikut ‎(“to jump around”) + ‎-et → ‎njuiket ‎(“to jump once”)

Usage notes

This suffix triggers the strongest grade on a preceding stressed syllable.

Inflection

Derived terms

Old English

Alternative forms

• -ot

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *-atją, *-itją, *-utją.

Suffix

-et n

1. suffix forming nouns from verbs, adjectives, and other nouns (sometimes causes i-mutation)

   þēowot "service, religious service, ministry"

   grafet "trench"

   bærnet "a burning, combustion, cauterizing"

   emnet "level ground, leveling"

   eolet "voyage, departure"

   þiccet "thicket"

   rēwet "rowing; ship, row-boat"

   rȳmet "space, clearance, extension"

   swefet/sweofot ‎(“sleep; sleeping”)

   þyrnet "thicket of thorns, thorny place"

Declension

Usage notes

• -ot was originally used with class 2 weak verbs in -ian ← *-ojan (from Proto-Germanic *-ōną). Confer usages for -od, -ung, -oþ, -ol, -or

Descendants

• English thicket

Old French

Etymology 1

From Late Latin -ittus.

Suffix

-et

1. Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun.

Descendants

• Middle French: -et
  • French: -et

Etymology 2

From Latin -ātus.

Suffix

-et

1. (12th century and before) Alternative form of -é (suffix used to form past participles of regular -er verbs)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin -etum. Compare Italian -eto, French -aie.

Suffix

-et n ‎(plural -eturi or -ete)

1. Used with plant or tree names to form names of orchards, woods, forests, or groves.

Declension

Derived terms

• păltinet
• ulmet

Etymology 2

From Latin -itus. No longer productive.

Alternative forms

• -ăt

Suffix

-et n ‎(plural -ete)

1. (unproductive) Used to form nouns derived from the action of some verbs.

Declension

Derived terms

• freamăt
• șuiet
• zbieret
• zâmbet

Swedish

Suffix

-et

1. Suffix for definite form singular of neuter nouns, especially if they end with consonant or a stressed vowel.
2. Suffix for the neuter form of past participles of verbs belonging to the fourth declension (strong verbs). This may be analyzed as two morphemes: a combination of the suffix -en for past participle and -t for neuter, where the n of the first suffix disappears. Such an analysis is historically correct.

Volapük

Suffix

-et

1. Used to indicate a consequential or concrete example

Derived terms