"Letten" meaning in German

See Letten in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈlɛ.tən/, /ˈlɛ.tn̩/ [Germany], /ˈlɛ.tɛn/, /ˈlɛ.tn̩/ [Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland] Audio: De-Letten.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛtən Etymology: From Middle High German lette, from Old High German letto, from Proto-Germanic *ladjō-, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂t- (“moist, wet”). Cognate with Icelandic leðja (“mud, muck”), Welsh llaid (“mire”), Lithuanian latakas (“gutter”), and possibly Latin latex. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|lette}} Middle High German lette, {{inh|de|goh|letto}} Old High German letto, {{der|de|gem-pro|*ladjō-}} Proto-Germanic *ladjō-, {{der|de|ine-pro|*leh₂t-|t=moist, wet}} Proto-Indo-European *leh₂t- (“moist, wet”), {{cog|is|leðja||mud, muck}} Icelandic leðja (“mud, muck”), {{cog|cy|llaid||mire}} Welsh llaid (“mire”), {{cog|lt|latakas||gutter}} Lithuanian latakas (“gutter”), {{cog|la|latex}} Latin latex Head templates: {{de-noun|m}} Letten m (strong, genitive Lettens, plural Letten) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m}} Forms: Lettens [genitive], Letten [plural], strong [table-tags], Letten [nominative, singular], Letten [definite, nominative, plural], Lettens [genitive, singular], Letten [definite, genitive, plural], Letten [dative, singular], Letten [dative, definite, plural], Letten [accusative, singular], Letten [accusative, definite, plural], Lett [alternative], Lette [alternative]
  1. loam, clay Tags: masculine, strong Derived forms: lettig Related terms: Lehm, Ton
    Sense id: en-Letten-de-noun-eCQBwzj1
  2. (Austria, Bavaria, colloquial) mud, muck Tags: Austria, Bavaria, colloquial, masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-Letten-de-noun-VRMoXRBw Categories (other): Austrian German, Bavarian German, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 14 45 8 8 17 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈlɛ.tən/, /ˈlɛ.tn̩/ [Germany], /ˈlɛ.tɛn/, /ˈlɛ.tn̩/ [Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland] Audio: De-Letten.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛtən Head templates: {{head|de|noun form}} Letten
  1. accusative singular of Lette Tags: accusative, form-of, singular Form of: Lette
    Sense id: en-Letten-de-noun-7RDx2BWt
  2. dative singular of Lette Tags: dative, form-of, singular Form of: Lette
    Sense id: en-Letten-de-noun-lyBUL-HQ
  3. genitive singular of Lette Tags: form-of, genitive, singular Form of: Lette
    Sense id: en-Letten-de-noun-frtXILK-
  4. plural of Lette Tags: form-of, plural Form of: Lette
    Sense id: en-Letten-de-noun-i0r~X8Ej
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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      "ipa": "/ˈlɛ.tɛn/"
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    {
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      "ipa": "/ˈlɛ.tɛn/"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.