wetten

wet +‎ -en

wetten (third-person singular simple present wettens, present participle wettening, simple past and past participle wettened)

1. (nonstandard, transitive) To make wet; to wet
   • 1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books (2012), →ISBN, page 73:

     Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.

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• Rhymes: -ɛtən

wetten

1. To whet, hone or rub on with something for the purpose of sharpening an object (typically a blade)
2. (figuratively) To prepare, make preparations

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wetten

1. Plural form of wet

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wettōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną. Cognate with Dutch wedden, English wed, Danish vædde, Icelandic veðja.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛtən/, [ˈvɛtn̩]

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wetten (third-person singular simple present wettet, past tense wettete, past participle gewettet, auxiliary haben)

1. to bet

   wetten, dass… — (try to) make sure that something is safe

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From Old High German wettōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną. Cognate with German wetten, Dutch wedden, English wed, Icelandic veðja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvætən/

wetten (third-person singular present wett, past participle gewett, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (intransitive) to bet