Eten in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Eten

You can make 16 words from 'eten' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'eten'
• 3 letters words from 'eten'
• 2 letters words from 'eten'

4 letters words from 'eten'

ETEN 4	NETE 4
TEEN 4	TENE 4

3 letters words from 'eten'

EEN 3	ENE 3
NEE 3	NET 3
TEE 3	TEN 3

2 letters words from 'eten'

EE 2	EN 2
ET 2	NE 2
TE 2

Definitions and meaning of eten

eten

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eten/, [e̞.t̪ẽ̞n]

Etymology 1

Verb

eten (present participle eteten, future participle etengo, infinitive eten, verbal noun etete)

1. break, separate
2. stop, interrupt

Etymology 2

Noun

eten

1. genitive plural of eta

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːtə(n)/
• Hyphenation: eten
• Rhymes: -eːtən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ēten, from Old Dutch etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

Verb

eten

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

Inflection

Derived terms

• afeten
• dooreten
• eetstoornis
• leegeten
• mee-eten
• opeten
• overeten
• tegeneten
• voleten
• vreten

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eet
• Jersey Dutch: eîte
• Negerhollands: jeet, jit, yet
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: jet, jeet
• Petjo: eten

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb eten.

Noun

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

1. food
2. dinner

Derived terms

• avondeten
• etensbak
• etensrest
• etenstijd
• etenswaar
• middageten

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ete

Anagrams

• neet, teen

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Japanese

Romanization

eten

1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

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Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German ēten, from Old Saxon etan.

Cognate with Dutch eten, West Frisian ite, German essen, English eat, Danish æde, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːtən/

Verb

eten (past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to eat

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Eten
• opeten
• övereten

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

Verb

ēten

1. to eat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: eten
  • Afrikaans: eet
• Limburgish: aete

Further reading

• “eten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “eten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• æten, etenn, eeten

Etymology

From Old English etan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːtən/

Verb

eten

1. To eat, devour
2. To consume or have a meal
3. To swallow, ingest
4. (figuratively) To derive might from something
5. To gnaw, scrape at
6. To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: eat
• Scots: aet, eat, eit, ete
• Yola: at, ayth (preterite)

References

• “ēten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

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Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

Noun

eten

1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

Synonyms

• etylen

Anagrams

• enet

Source: wiktionary.org

• a giant.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)