wetten
Meaning
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- to whet, hone or rub on with something for the purpose of sharpening an object (typically a blade)
- (figuratively) to prepare, make preparations
- (poetic) to point as a weapon
Frequency
Hyphenated as
wet‧ten
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʋɛ.tə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch wetten, from Old Dutch *wetten, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną.
New
wet
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- (feminine) law (rule)
- (feminine) law (body of rules declared and/or enforced by a government)
- (feminine) law of nature
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