wet

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Covered with or full of water or another liquid.

   Don't sit down; the bench is still wet from the rain.

2. 2
   adj

   Not yet dry.

   Be careful, the paint is still wet.

3. 3
   verb

   To make something wet.

   Wet the cloth before you wipe the table.

4. 4
   noun

   Wetness caused by water or rain.

   Drops of wet gleamed on the window.

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Simplified etymology

Wet has been used since Old English and ultimately comes from the same prehistoric root as water. Related forms from this ancient word family occur across several European languages.

From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water). Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), relat…

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