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fet en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To fetch.
    • And from the other fiftie soone the prisoner fet 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

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fetting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fet Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fet Tense=Past lexicographic
fets Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

farfet

Source: en.wiktionary, “fet” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

fet en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A piece.
    • That the bottom clear, Now lay'd with many a fet of seed pearl, 1627, Michael Drayton, The Quest of Cynthia, published 1810:

Forms

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fets Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “fet” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

fet en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, uncountable) Clipping of fetish.
    alt of fetish
    • It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago. 2003, Morgane, “Relatives turning up in the scene”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
    • oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached. 1997, NuBabyByte, “Iron Shackles, Bare Feet”, in alt.torture (Usenet):