"eten" meaning in Middle English

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "eat"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "eat"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "ait"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "aet"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "eit"
    },
    {
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        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "eat"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "ait"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "aet"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "eyt"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "ayth"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "eight"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "to eat"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "etan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English etan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*etan"
      },
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        "3": "*etaną"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eteth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "et",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-st",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "et",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eteth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "et",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eteth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eete",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eeten",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ethe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ette",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "æten",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etenn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "eten",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eteth",
        "2": "etynge",
        "3": "et",
        "4": "eten"
      },
      "expansion": "eten (third-person singular simple present eteth, present participle etynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative et, past participle eten)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "et",
        "2": "et",
        "2s2": "est",
        "3": "et",
        "3s2": "et",
        "class": "5",
        "p_1s2": "et"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-st"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ete"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "freten"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 12 23 25 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat, devour."
      ],
      "id": "en-eten-enm-verb-ANvJkRLJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "devour",
          "devour"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 12 23 25 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              118
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              145,
              151
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The other rule is entirely external; it governs the body and bodily doings. It contains everything [about] how you should behave externally: how to eat, how to drink, dress, sing, sleep, and keep a vigil.",
          "ref": "c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Introduction”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 371, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:",
          "text": "Þe oþ᷑ rule is al wᵗoutẽ. ⁊ ruleþ þe bodı⹎ ⁊ bodılıche deden. þat techeþ al hou me ſchal beren hĩ wıþ outen. How. eten. How drınken. weren. syngen. slepen. waken.",
          "translation": "The other rule is entirely external; it governs the body and bodily doings. It contains everything [about] how you should behave externally: how to eat, how to drink, dress, sing, sleep, and keep a vigil.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To consume or have a meal."
      ],
      "id": "en-eten-enm-verb-fwO2At6C",
      "links": [
        [
          "consume",
          "consume"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 8 10 8 3 9 8 8 10 10 10 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 8 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 12 23 25 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 19 81 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Food and drink",
          "orig": "enm:Food and drink",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To swallow, ingest."
      ],
      "id": "en-eten-enm-verb-iaMuiK5P",
      "links": [
        [
          "swallow",
          "swallow"
        ],
        [
          "ingest",
          "ingest"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 8 10 8 3 9 8 8 10 10 10 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 8 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 12 23 25 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To derive might from something."
      ],
      "id": "en-eten-enm-verb-hPROyOng",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To derive might from something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 8 10 8 3 9 8 8 10 10 10 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 8 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 12 23 25 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gnaw, scrape at."
      ],
      "id": "en-eten-enm-verb-V929E9yC",
      "links": [
        [
          "gnaw",
          "gnaw"
        ],
        [
          "scrape",
          "scrape"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 12 23 25 13 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)"
      ],
      "id": "en-eten-enm-verb-NrXeI6ay"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛ̞ːtən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eten"
}

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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Food and drink"
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    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "eat"
    },
    {
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          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "eat"
        },
        {
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          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "ait"
        },
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          "word": "aet"
        }
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      "word": "eit"
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          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "eat"
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          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "ait"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "aet"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "eyt"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "ayth"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "eight"
    }
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      },
      "expansion": "",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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      "form": "eteth",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "etynge",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "eten",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
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      "form": "enm-conj-st",
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        "inflection-template"
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    {
      "form": "eten",
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      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "to eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "et",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eteth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "et",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eteth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eete",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eeten",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ete",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ethe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ette",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "æten",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etenn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "eten",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eteth",
        "2": "etynge",
        "3": "et",
        "4": "eten"
      },
      "expansion": "eten (third-person singular simple present eteth, present participle etynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative et, past participle eten)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "et",
        "2": "et",
        "2s2": "est",
        "3": "et",
        "3s2": "et",
        "class": "5",
        "p_1s2": "et"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-st"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ete"
    },
    {
      "word": "freten"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To eat, devour."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "devour",
          "devour"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              118
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              145,
              151
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The other rule is entirely external; it governs the body and bodily doings. It contains everything [about] how you should behave externally: how to eat, how to drink, dress, sing, sleep, and keep a vigil.",
          "ref": "c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Introduction”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 371, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:",
          "text": "Þe oþ᷑ rule is al wᵗoutẽ. ⁊ ruleþ þe bodı⹎ ⁊ bodılıche deden. þat techeþ al hou me ſchal beren hĩ wıþ outen. How. eten. How drınken. weren. syngen. slepen. waken.",
          "translation": "The other rule is entirely external; it governs the body and bodily doings. It contains everything [about] how you should behave externally: how to eat, how to drink, dress, sing, sleep, and keep a vigil.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To consume or have a meal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "consume",
          "consume"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To swallow, ingest."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swallow",
          "swallow"
        ],
        [
          "ingest",
          "ingest"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To derive might from something."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To derive might from something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To gnaw, scrape at."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gnaw",
          "gnaw"
        ],
        [
          "scrape",
          "scrape"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛ̞ːtən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eten"
}