letten
Meaning
- (transitive) to pay attention, to mind
- (transitive) to prevent from doing something, to keep, to stop
- (dialectal,transitive) to watch, to look, to see
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɛtə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch letten, from Old Dutch *letten, from Proto-Germanic *latjaną. Equivalent to laat (“late”) + -en (“deadjectival”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.
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