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語源

From Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

発音

• IPA: /ˈe.tɑn/
• 韻: -e.tɑn

動詞

etan

1. to eat
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.

     I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Wearð þæt unġemetlīċe myċle ġefeoht betwuh Crētense, ⁊ Atheniense, þǣm folcum. ⁊ þā Crētense hæfdon ðone grimlēċan siġe, ⁊ ealle þā æþelestan bearn þāra Athēniensa hȳ ġenomon, ⁊ sealdon þǣm Mīnōtaurō tō etanne, þæt wæs healf mon healf lēo.

     There was an immensely great war between the Cretans and the Athenians. And the Cretans won a grim victory, and they took all the most noble of the Athenian children and gave them to the Minotaur, who was half man and half lion, for him to eat.

使用する際の注意点

• The attested forms of the second and third person singular present tense of this verb are quite varied; the former is attested as itst, etest, etst, ytst, and ætst, and the latter as it, yt, ytt, et, ett, eteþ, ieteþ, yteþ, and iteþ.

Conjugation

派生語

• efnetan
• ġeetan
• þurhetan

派生した語

• Middle English: eten, eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette, æten, etenn (Early Middle English), etyn (East Anglia)
  • English: eat
  • Middle Scots: eit, eyt
    • Scots: eat, ait, aet
  • Yola: ayth, eight