# eten
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eten/, [e̞.t̪ẽ̞n]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

eten ? (imperfect participle eteten, future participle etengo or etenen, short form eten, verbal noun etete)
* break, separate
* stop, interrupt

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

eten
* genitive plural of eta

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeː.tə(n)/
* Audio (Netherlands):(file)
* Hyphenation: eten
* Rhymes: -eːtən
* Homophone: Eethen

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

eten
* (transitive, intransitive) to eat

##### Derived terms

* afeten
* de kaas niet van het brood laten eten
* de soep wordt nooit zo heet gegeten als ze wordt opgediend
* dooreten
* eetcultuur
* eetgewoonte
* eethuis
* eetstoornis
* eter
* het hele eiereneten
* kaas gegeten hebben
* leegeten
* mee-eten
* opeten
* overeten
* tegeneten
* vereten
* voleten
* wat de boer niet kent, dat eet hij niet

##### Related terms

* 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)
* food
* dinner

##### Derived terms

* avondeten
* etensbak
* etensrest
* etenstijd
* etenswaar
* middageten

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: ete

### Anagrams

* neet, teen

## Japanese
### Romanization

eten
* Rōmaji transcription of エテン

## 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, Nowegian ete, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeːtən/

### Verb

eten (past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)
* to eat

#### Derived terms

* Eten
* opeten
* övereten

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Verb

ēten
* 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

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette
* æten, etenn (Early Middle English)

### Etymology

From Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛːtən/

### Verb

eten (third-person singular simple present eteth, present participle etynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative et, past participle eten)
* To eat, devour
* To consume or have a meal
* To swallow, ingest
* (figurative) To derive might from something
* To gnaw, scrape at
* To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) eten, ete | (to) eten, ete |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | ete | at, et |
| 2nd-person singular | etest, est | ete, ate, at |
| 3rd-person singular | eteth, et | at, et |
| subjunctive singular | ete | ete$^1$, ate$^1$ |
| imperative singular | ete | — |
| plural$^2$ | eten, ete | eten, ete, aten, ate |
| imperative plural | eteth, ete | — |
| participles | etynge, etende | eten, ete, yeten, yete |
$^1$Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English. $^2$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Related terms

* ete
* freten

#### Descendants

* English: eat
* Scots: ait, aet, eat, eit, ete
* Yola: at, ayth, eight

### References

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

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈe.ten/

### Noun

eten m
* Alternative form of eoten

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “eten”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

### Noun

eten
* (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

#### Synonyms

* etylen

### Further reading

* eten in Svensk ordbok.

### Anagrams

* enet