evet
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
See eft.
Noun
evet (plural evets)
- The common newt or eft.
- (US) Any of several species of aquatic salamanders.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “evet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Hungarian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɛvɛt]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: evet
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | evet | evetek |
| accusative | evetet | eveteket |
| dative | evetnek | eveteknek |
| instrumental | evettel | evetekkel |
| causal-final | evetért | evetekért |
| translative | evetté | evetekké |
| terminative | evetig | evetekig |
| essive-formal | evetként | evetekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | evetben | evetekben |
| superessive | eveten | eveteken |
| adessive | evetnél | eveteknél |
| illative | evetbe | evetekbe |
| sublative | evetre | evetekre |
| allative | evethez | evetekhez |
| elative | evetből | evetekből |
| delative | evetről | evetekről |
| ablative | evettől | evetektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
eveté | eveteké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
evetéi | evetekéi |
| Possessive forms of evet | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | evetem | evetjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | eveted | evetjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | evetje | evetjei |
| 1st person plural | evetünk | evetjeink |
| 2nd person plural | evetetek | evetjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | evetjük | evetjeik |
Further reading
- evet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- evet in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish أوت (evet), from Common Turkic.[1][2][3] Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yemet, “yes”). Nişanyan suggest that it may be a doublet of dialectal evet (“quickly”) and suggests a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄b- (“to be quick”) whence ivmek, however note the mismatch in initial vowels.[4] EDAL considers Chuvash аван (avan) to also be a cognate and reconstructs Proto-Turkic *ebe-,[5] however such a root is unattested and usually not reconstructed outside of EDAL.
Replaced the formerly prevalent ha (“yes”), now largely limited to dialectal and colloquial use.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.vet/, [e̞ˈvɛt̟], (informal, some speakers) [e̞ːt̟]
Audio (file)
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yemet”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 935
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “evet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1515
- Tietze, Andreas (2009) “evet”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume 2, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 666
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ebe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill