fet
nounEtymology Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).
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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:
fet
verb/fɛt/
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.
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Obsolete To fetch.
- And from the other fiftie soone the prisoner fet1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- farfet