ette

From Middle Dutch ette (“judge”), from Old Dutch *atto, from Proto-Germanic *attô (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *átta. In either the Old Dutch part of the word's history, the word shifted in meaning from "father" to "judge", analogous to how in Latin the word patres (“fathers”) took the additional meaning "senators".

Cognate with Old High German atto (Middle High German atte, Alemannic German Ätti).

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ette m (plural etten, diminutive etje n)

1. (archaic) judge
2. (historical) judge in Drenthe

• rechter

• Etstoel
• etstoel

From ees.

ette

1. before

• Hyphenation: et‧te
• IPA^(key): [ˈetːe]

ette

1. The second-person plural form of the negation verb. The English translations include do not/don’t and not (with auxiliary verbs and be).

• The negative verb is used with the connegative form of the main verb. That form is identical to the second-person singular imperative in the indicative present. The potential mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -ne-, and the conditional mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -isi-. In the indicative past, conditional past and potential past, the active past participle plural (ending -eet) is used — if addressing politely or formally one person, the active past participle singular (ending -ut/-yt) is used. The connegative form of the main verb is always used without the personal suffix.

• Usage of ette:

• Indicative:

• Te näette. (You see.) -> Te ette näe. (You do not see.)
• (addressing many persons) Te näitte. (You saw.) -> Te ette nähneet. (You did not see.)

• (addressing one person) Te näitte. (You saw.) -> Te ette nähnyt. (You did not see.)

• (addressing many persons) Te olette nähneet. (You have seen.) -> Te ette ole nähneet. (You have not seen.)

• (addressing one person) Te olette nähnyt. (You have seen) -> Te ette ole nähnyt. (You have not seen.)

• (addressing many persons) Te olitte nähneet. (You had seen.) -> Te ette olleet nähneet. (You had not seen.)

• (addressing one person) Te olitte nähnyt. (You had seen.) -> Te ette ollut nähnyt. (You had not seen.)

• Conditional:

• Te näkisitte. (You would see.) -> Te ette näkisi. (You would not see.)
• (addressing many persons) Te olisitte nähneet. (You would have seen.) -> Te ette olisi nähneet. (You would not have seen.)

• (addressing one person) Te olisitte nähnyt. (You would have seen.) -> Te ette olisi nähnyt. (You would not have seen.)

• Potential:

• Te nähnette. (You probably see.) -> Te ette nähne. (You probably do not see.)
• (addressing many persons) Te lienette nähneet. (You have probably seen.) -> Te ette liene nähneet. (You have probably not seen.)

• (addressing one person) Te lienette nähnyt. (You have probably seen.) -> Te ette liene nähnyt. (You have probably not seen.)

• The negation verb has no infinitive form.
• Indicative, conditional and potential moods use the indicative forms (stem e-), for which the verb is conjugated only in person.
• In the imperative mood the negation verb has the stem äl-.
• An archaic optative mood exists and is used mainly in poetry.

person	indicative mood	imperative mood	optative mood
1st sing.	en	(älkääni, älkäämi)	(ällön)
2nd sing.	et	älä	(ällös)
3rd sing.	ei	älköön	(älköön)
1st plur.	emme	älkäämme	(älköömme)
2nd plur.	ette	älkää	(älköötte)
3rd plur.	eivät	älkööt	(älkööt)

• teet

ette (plural éttem)

1. louse

• Collard, Howard; Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 139

From Proto-Celtic *ɸettiyā, from *ɸeteti (“to fly”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to fly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈetʲe/

ette f (genitive ette, nominative plural etti)

1. (anatomy) wing, pinion
2. (anatomy) fin
3. feather, plume

• ettech (“winged; having fins; having wing-like appendages; flying, fluttering”)

• Irish: eite, eiteog
• Manx: fedjag
• Scottish Gaelic: ite, iteag

• “ette” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

ette

1. locative singular of et