fettle

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
2. One's mental state; spirits.
3. Sand used to line a furnace.
4. A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
5. (UK, dialectal) The act of fettling.
6. (Cumbria, Geordie) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.

Verb

1. (Northern-England, especially) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
2. (intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
3. (transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
4. (Geordie, reflexive) To be upset or in a bad mood.
5. To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
6. (transitive) To machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation.
7. (archaic, transitive) To prepare.

Concepts

alcool

boisson

eau-de-vie

spiritueux

alcool fort

boisson alcoolique

gniaule

Synonymes

state

form

condition

groom

situation

order

repair

distill

distillate

fitness

kilter

liqueur

liquor

list

lustrate

mending

mull

patch

plight

predicament

purge

purify

rectify

refine

sanitize

scavenge

shape

spirits

statement

status

trim

trimming

unblock

wash

🧽

dress out

make pure

deterge

repatching

repaired biscuit

busy

fettlin

case

circumstance

circumstances

clean

cleanse

clear

Traductions

zinde

condizione

hal

Verfassung

stato

Branntwein

Alkohol

خمر

Spirituose

Schnaps

Spirituosen

trinken

🥤

licor

vorbereiten

Likör

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈfɛtl̩/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: fetlen

Hérité de ancien anglais: fetel

Hérité de ancien anglais: fetian

Appartenant à ancien anglais: ġefetelsod

In summary

From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly:
* from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or
* from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”).
Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”).