etan

etan

1. inessive singular of eta

• ethan

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛtan]

etan m inan

1. (organic chemistry) ethane (C₂H₆)

• metan
• propan
• butan
• pentan
• hexan
• heptan
• oktan
• nonan
• dekan
• undekan
• dodekan

• etan in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• etan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• etan in Internetová jazyková příručka

etan

1. accusative singular of eta

etan n

1. (organic chemistry) ethane

• etanól
• eten

etan n (definite singular etanet) (uncountable)

1. ethane (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₂H₆)

etan n (definite singular etanet) (uncountable)

1. ethane (as above)

Cognates include Yoruba ìtàn.

• IPA^(key): /è.tã̀/

ètàn (plural ètànzhì)

1. history
2. tradition
3. lineage ; genealogy

From e- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ tán (“to pain”).

• IPA^(key): /e.tã́/

etán (plural etánzhì)

1. pain

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

etan

1. to eat

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: ēten
  • Dutch: eten
    • Afrikaans: eet
  • Limburgish: aete

• “etan (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• eata — Northumbrian
• eotan
• ætan

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.tɑn/

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.

• efnetan
• ġeetan
• þurhetan

• Middle English: eten, eete, eeten, ete, etin, ethe, ette; æten, etenn
  • English: eat
  • Scots: ait, aet, eat, eit, ete
  • Yola: at, ayth, eight

From Proto-West Germanic *etan.

etan

1. to eat

• Middle Low German: ēten
  • Low German: eten

Borrowed from English ethane. By surface analysis, etyl +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.tan/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtan
• Syllabification: e‧tan

etan m inan

1. ethane

• etan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• etan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French éthane.

etan m (uncountable)

1. ethane

From English ethane; equivalent to etyl +‎ -an.

etan n (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) ethane

• Aten, ante, enat