letten

Significado

1. (transitive) to pay attention, to mind
2. (transitive) to prevent from doing something, to keep, to stop
3. (dialectal,transitive) to watch, to look, to see

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈlɛtə(n)/

Etimologia

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.